A solar flare from the sun created a geomagnetic storm, which caused Toronto’s stock market to halt.
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The Junkers Ju 287, the first jet with forward-swept wings, made its first flight.
The world's first colored cartoon with synchronized sound was released.
More than 1,200 tin homes were destroyed after a fire broke out in the Chalantika slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
NASA launched its Active Magnetospheric Particle Tracer Explorers mission (AMPTE) from the Cape Canaveral launch pad.
Cyprus gained its independence from the United Kingdom.
