Following the Sega Saturn’s success in Japan, the console was released in North America on this day.
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Minnesota became the 32nd state to join the United States of America.
Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical 'Cats,' based on poetry by T. S. Eliot, first premiered in the West End, London.
US President James K. Polk asked Congress to declare war on Mexico.
NASA's Atlantis Space Shuttle launched on the final mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
In Montreal, Canada, a fire broke out after an English merchant put fireplace ashes in his attic for soap-making – not knowing that the cinders were still hot.
