American romantic fantasy movie “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part I” premiered at the Rome Film Festival.
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Inventor Daniel Cooper patented the first time clock in the US.
The World Wildlife Fund blamed humanity's rapidly expanding consumerism for decreasing 60% of the world's wildlife between 1970 & 2014.
The Canadian province of Quebec came close to becoming an independent country.
NASA's Challenger Space Shuttle launched for its final successful mission, STS-61-A.
Anne Frank and her sister Margot Frank were deported from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen.