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USSR launches Mechta (Luna 1) for 1st lunar fly-by, 1st solar orbit
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Failed assassination attempt on president Nkrumah of Ghana
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Christiaan Barnard performs 2nd heart transplant
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A barrier collapses at Ibrox Park football ground at end of a soccer match in Glasgow Scotland, killing 66
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Autopsy of Chris Farley shows he overdosed of opiates & cocaine
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A brutal snowstorm smashes into the Midwestern United States, causing 14 inches (359 mm) of snow in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and 19 inches (487 mm) in Chicago, where temperatures plunge to -13°F (-25°C); 68 deaths are reported.
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Eduardo Duhalde is appointed interim President of Argentina by the Legislative Assembly.
