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