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Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut; he is not released until December 1991.
A massive earthquake destroys the former capital Inwa of the Konbaung dynasty, present-day Myanmar.
Reports are broadcast that a UFO crash-landed in Roswell, New Mexico in what became known as the Roswell UFO incident.
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