A picture of Pope John Paul II was torn up by the Irish singer Sinead O’Connor on Saturday Night Live.
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WERD, the first African-American-owned radio station in the US, made its first broadcast.
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The city planning simulation game SimCity was released for the Apple Macintosh.
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