America officially began to withdraw from the World Health Organization.
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Catholic Saint Sir Thomas More was executed for treason by King Henry VIII.
The Soviet Union started mass producing the AK-47 assault rifle.
The first successful rabies vaccine was successfully tested on a 9-year-old boy in France.
The US adopted the name 'dollars' and started using decimal coinage.
The American Declaration of Independence was publicly released in the Pennsylvania Evening Post.
