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★21 Feb 1965
Black nationalist Malcolm X was assassinated while giving a speech in New York City's Audubon Ballroom.

★20 Dec 1968
The first two confirmed murders by the Zodiac Killer occurred in Benicia, California, in a case which remains unsolved.

★19 Jan 1972
The French newspaper L'Aurore revealed that the former Nazi SS officer Klaus Barbie, the "Butcher of Lyon", had been found to be living in Peru.

★13 Jun 1973
The Los Angeles Dodgers started Steve Garvey, Davey Lopes, Ron Cey, and Bill Russell in the infield, beginning a Major League Baseball-record 8½ year run for 4 people designated as starters for those positions.

★04 Mar 1980
Robert Mugabe of the Zimbabwe African National Union was elected to head the first government in Zimbabwe.

★26 Sep 1983
Soviet Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov averted a possible worldwide nuclear war by identifying what otherwise appeared to be an impending attack by the United States as a false alarm.

★21 Oct 1983
At the 17th General Conference on Weights and Measures, the length of a metre was redefined as the distance that light travels in vacuum in ​1⁄299,792,458 of a second.

★13 Sep 1985
Super Mario Bros., one of the best-selling and most influential video games of all time, was first released for the NES in Japan.

★05 Nov 1990
Ultra-Zionist rabbi Meir Kahane was assassinated in a New York City hotel by an Arab gunman.

★04 Dec 1992
U.S. President George H. W. Bush ordered American troops into Somalia to help provide humanitarian aid and restore order during the ongoing Somali Civil War.

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