Ice Age: Continental Drift premiered in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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The US Navy's Vanguard SLV-2 launch vehicle failed to reach Earth's orbit.
William IV became king of The United Kingdom and Hanover until his death in 1837.
Dr. Zabdiel Boylston of Harvard University gave the first smallpox inoculations in Boston following America's biggest outbreak.
President Bill Clinton ordered a US cruise missile strike on Iraq.
Charlie Chaplin's silent movie 'The Gold Rush' was released.
