Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was tried for his crimes against humanity.
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The 1991 Best Picture, 'Dances With Wolves,' premiered in Washington, D.C.
Germany's oldest university, and one of the world's oldest surviving universities, The Universität Heidelberg, held a lecture for the first time.
Max Planck proposed Planck's Law, a new law of physics for black-body radiation.
German professor Martin Luther became a doctor when he was awarded his Doctor of Theology from the University of Wittenberg, Germany.
University of California scientists found evidence that life on Earth probably began 4.1 billion years ago.