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drills the first successful U.S. oil well near Titusville
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Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by the first 15 nations to do so. Ultimately sixty-one nations sign up
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began landing in Japan after Japan's surrender in World War II
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The Guinness Book of World Records compiled by student twins Norris and Ross McWhirter is published for the first time
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Bob Dylan's second electric album, Highway 61 Revisited, is released
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The Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein, is found dead at his Belgravia home in London
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British heptathlete Denise Lewis is born
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Rupert Murdoch launches Sky TV
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Mars made its closest approach to earth in 60,000 years
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Around one-hundred miners barricade themselves underground with explosives in a pit in the island of Sardinia in protest of the closing of the country's only mine.