Leonard Cohen released his debut album “Songs of Leonard Cohen” through Columbia Records.
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Chicago, the film based on the musical and directed by Rob Marshall, was released.
Radiation from an explosion on the magnetar SGR 1806-20 reached Earth.
The Hawaiian Fire Department was established.
Spain decreed the Laws of Burgos, the first set of laws that attempted to govern Spaniards abroad in the Americas.
Benazir Bhutto was assassinated.