The Voice, a reality singing competition television show, premiered on NBC.
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A Texas resident narrowly avoided a felony after forgetting to return a VHS rental tape after 22 years.
The first major mass trials of polio vaccines began.
Singer Rod Stewart was robbed at gunpoint.
The official secret police force of Nazi Germany, the Gestapo, was established.
Great Britain claimed South Georgia Island after Argentina surrendered following the Falklands War.
