The Soviet K-278 Komsomolets nuclear submarine caught fire and sank off the coast of Norway.
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Texaco was formed.
Car engineer Henry Ford died at the age of 83.
Englishman John Walker invented modern-day wooden matches that create a flame through friction.
NASA launched the 2001 Mars Odyssey space probe from Cape Canaveral.
Booker T. Washington became the first Black person pictured on a US postage stamp.
