Pope John Paul II proclaimed the day as the first-ever World Youth Day.
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King Richard III of England was reburied at Leicester Cathedral, England.
James Cameron dove into the deepest point of the Marianas Trench, Challenger Deep.
The first edition of the Book of Mormon was published in Palmyra, New York.
The US tested the TX-17 thermonuclear bomb for the first time in Bikini Atoll of the Marshall Islands.
Up to 20,000 people were killed in an earthquake in Caracas, Venezuela.
