Puerto Rico’s Arecibo Telescope collapsed less than a month after being decommissioned.
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Rosa Parks was arrested.
Paul McCartney and Pete Best were arrested.
Pedro I was crowned Emperor of Brazil.
Slavery in Cape Colony, Britain's colony in South Africa, was abolished by the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act.
The first-ever World AIDS day started in effort to raise awareness of the AIDS global epidemic.
