The Twilight Saga: New Moon premiered in Los Angeles.
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The Soviet Union's Venera 3 space probe was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
Queen Elizabeth II had hip surgery at King Edward VII Hospital.
The Skylab 4 mission was launched by NASA, taking a crew of three astronauts to the US space station.
The first edition of America's oldest newspaper, The New York Evening Post, was published.
Nineteen countries vowed to gradually phase out coal at the United Nations Summit in Bonn, Germany.
