A meteor exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia, which sent shockwaves that smashed windows and injured 1,500 people.
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Great Britain ditched their Pence and Shillings currency values for decimal varieties.
An assassination attempt was made against US President Franklin D. Roosevelt by an Italian immigrant, Giuseppe Zangara.
The Soviet Union announced that all of its troops had officially withdrawn from Afghanistan.
US President Rutherford B. Hayes signed a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court.
The first draft of the human genome was published in Nature Magazine.
