The Soviet K-278 Komsomolets nuclear submarine caught fire and sank off the coast of Norway.
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Texaco was formed.
New York and New Jersey were struck by the strongest earthquake in over one hundred years.
US forces circled the city of Baghdad, which led to the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime two days later.
Mount Vesuvius volcano erupted, devastating Naples in the process.
Donald Trump married his first wife, Ivana Zelníčková, in Manhattan, New York.
