Ice Age: Continental Drift premiered in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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President Bill Clinton ordered a US cruise missile strike on Iraq.
The US Navy's Vanguard SLV-2 launch vehicle failed to reach Earth's orbit.
Dr. Zabdiel Boylston of Harvard University gave the first smallpox inoculations in Boston following America's biggest outbreak.
The emperor of China patented the toothbrush using coarse boar bristles.
Charlie Chaplin's silent movie 'The Gold Rush' was released.
