Voyager 1 passed Pioneer 10 to become the most distant human-made object in space.
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Oregon became the first US state to pass a minimum wage law.
Sweden changed their calendar to the Gregorian calendar, making the next day March 1 instead of February 18.
A stampede at a soccer match killed forty-nine people in Cairo, Egypt.
The Republic of Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia.
Casey Neistat uploaded his first-ever YouTube video.
