Saddam Hussein was reelected president of Iraq through a referendum.
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Ernest Hemingway's 'To Have and Have Not' was published in the US.
The tennis player Chris Evert won the first WTA Tour Championship in Florida.
Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black-rights political organization, Black Panther Party.
At 11 years old, Grace Bedell wrote to Abraham Lincoln, saying he should grow a beard.
The children's novel 'Charlotte's Web' was published by E. B. White.
