Dr. Bernard Fantus and his team opened the very first “blood bank” in Cook County Hospital, Chicago, US.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was elected as the Soviet Union's first President.
The musical 'My Fair Lady' had its first performance on Broadway in New York City.
Julius Caesar was assassinated.
Explorer Christopher Columbus wrote a letter about his travels to the New World.
NASA's Discovery Space Shuttle launched from the Kennedy Space Center on mission STS-119.
