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Amazon.com Sells its First Book:
The e-commerce website was first founded in 1995 by Jeff Bezos as an online bookstore.
Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 collides with Jupiter:
The Jupiter orbiting comet collided with Jupiter.
Mahathir bin Mohamad takes office for the first time:
He is the fourth Prime Minister of Malaysia and remained in the position until 2003.
Iraqi president, Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr resigns:
The fourth president of Iraq resigned from his post citing health reasons. Saddam Hussein became the President.
- 1967 Will Ferrell
American comedian, actor
- 1947 Assata Shakur
American activist, criminal
- 1907 Orville Redenbacher
American farmer, businessman
- 1960 Albert Kesselring
German field marshal
- 1915 Ellen G. White
American author, co-founder of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church
- 1882 Mary Todd Lincoln
American wife of Abraham Lincoln, 17th First Lady of the United States
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