Puerto Rico’s Arecibo Telescope collapsed less than a month after being decommissioned.
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Shaw University, the first historically Black university in the southern United States, was founded.
Rosa Parks was arrested.
NASA intentionally crashed a Boeing 720 aircraft to test new safety technology.
The first-ever World AIDS day started in effort to raise awareness of the AIDS global epidemic.
Lady Nancy Astor was sworn in, making her the first female member of British Parliament.
