Martin Luther King started his first of many non-violent demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama, US.
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The Falklands War broke out between Argentina and Britain over the Falkland Islands and lasted ten weeks.
Sixty-six people died in Sverdlovsk, USSR, when a bio-warfare lab accidentally released airborne anthrax.
New York Times Newspaper officially declared that the Cold War was over.
Explorer Juan Ponce de León found Florida and claimed it for Spain.
COVID-19 claimed the life of comedian Eddie Large from 'Little and Large.'