Puerto Rico’s Arecibo Telescope collapsed less than a month after being decommissioned.
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The Great Train Robbery, the first-ever Western film, was released.
Rosa Parks was arrested.
Japanese Emperor Hirohito approved plans set forward by his advisors to go to war against the United States of America.
Shaw University, the first historically Black university in the southern United States, was founded.
Pedro I was crowned Emperor of Brazil.
