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The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother in Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union
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1st American novel, WH Brown's "Power of Sympathy" is published
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Bee Gees' album "Saturday Night Fever" goes #1 for 24 weeks
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John McEnroe becomes 1st ever player to be expelled from the Australian Open
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CBS News correspondant Bob Simon and four TV crew captured and held for 40 days by Iraqis in the Persian Gulf
