Peruvian ambassador Ricardo Rivera-Schreiber gave a warning that Japan would attack Pearl Harbor.
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Apollo 1 test launch failed, and astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger B. Chaffee all died.
Germany first observed the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The Outer Space Treaty was signed to prevent the use of nuclear weapons being utilized in space.
The first of 126 nuclear tests started at the Nevada Test Site.
The theory of Wave Mechanics by physicist Erwin Schrödinger was first taught in lectures.