Saddam Hussein was reelected president of Iraq through a referendum.
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The tennis player Chris Evert won the first WTA Tour Championship in Florida.
The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche celebrated his 44th birthday by beginning his autobiography 'Ecce Homo,' which was published in 1908.
Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black-rights political organization, Black Panther Party.
The children's novel 'Charlotte's Web' was published by E. B. White.
Hitler declared that all of Germany's Jews must be relocated, and Polish Jews found outside of their ghettos would be shot on sight.
