The Soviet Union announced that all of its troops had officially withdrawn from Afghanistan.
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A trade union was founded that later became the current British Labor Party.
Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, who was known as the Milwaukee Cannibal, was sentenced to life in prison.
The first draft of the human genome was published in Nature Magazine.
US President Rutherford B. Hayes signed a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court.
A meteor exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia, which sent shockwaves that smashed windows and injured 1,500 people.
