Heineken International was founded in the Netherlands.
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Nigerian Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala became the first African and first woman to lead the World Trade Organization.
Adolf Hitler announced the construction of the Volkswagen Beetle.
An assassination attempt was made against US President Franklin D. Roosevelt by an Italian immigrant, Giuseppe Zangara.
A meteor exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia, which sent shockwaves that smashed windows and injured 1,500 people.
The first draft of the human genome was published in Nature Magazine.