More than 30 military students were injured in a mass pillow fight leading to a ban of the event in future years.
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NASA announced they would send a ship to Jupiter's moon, Europa, to look for extraterrestrial life.
The ''LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin” returned to Lakehurst, New Jersey, after being the first airship to circumference the earth in one journey.
Estonia claimed its independence from USSR.
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that measles cases were at an all-time record high, with 41,000 in the first half of the year alone.
NASA launched the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars.