Sixty-six people died in Sverdlovsk, USSR, when a bio-warfare lab accidentally released airborne anthrax.
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Martin Luther King started his first of many non-violent demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama, US.
The '2001: A Space Odyssey' sci-fi movie premiered in Washington, DC.
The International Criminal Court opened its first office in Venezuela following allegations of torture and killings by the country's security forces.
Mafia boss John Gotti was convicted of thirteen murders and racketeering.
The Soviet Union's Zond 1 space probe was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
