John D. Rockefeller created Standard Oil Company in Cleveland, Ohio.
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The Sopranos, the hit American crime drama, debuted on HBO.
Stephen III of Moldavia defeated the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Vaslui.
A large group of people was poisoned at a funeral in Mozambique.
London Underground was opened, making it the world’s oldest underground railway system.
The Soviet Union's Soyuz 17 was successfully launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome atop a Soyuz rocket.
