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Sampit conflict: Inter-ethnic violence between Dayaks and Madurese breaks out in Sampit, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, ultimately resulting in more than 500 deaths and 100,000 Madurese displaced from their homes.
The California Supreme Court in the case of People v. Anderson, (6 Cal.3d 628) invalidates the state's death penalty and commutes the sentences of all death row inmates to life imprisonment.
World War II: Joseph Goebbels delivers his Sportpalast speech.
Born: Jean M. Auel, American author.
While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto.
Bulgarian revolutionary leader Vasil Levski is executed by hanging in Sofia by the Ottoman authorities.
Died: Colmán, bishop of Lindisfarne.
Kali Yuga, the fourth and final yuga of Hinduism, starts with the death of Krishna.