The Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic was founded.
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Vice President Richard Nixon started a goodwill tour in South America to show that the US was committed to the region.
Fascist Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was executed in a small village in Northern Italy.
The Treaty of San Francisco took effect.
Space welcomed its first tourist from Earth.
Flight attendant Clarabelle 'C.B.' Lansing was blown out of Aloha Airlines Flight 243.
