Coup d’état attempt on President Hugo Chávez failed in Venezuela.
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Apollo 13 was launched successfully but ran into difficulties two days later.
Paleontologists unearthed dinosaur eggs with embryonic bones inside in China.
Frank Sinatra recorded his hit 'Strangers in the Night.'
Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, was removed from London's Ecuadorian Embassy by police.
Anastasius I Dicorus ascended to the throne of the Byzantine Empire at the age of sixty-one.