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★03 May 1951
The Royal Festival Hall, the first post-war building to become listed Grade I, opened as the venue for the Festival of Britain.

★22 May 1960
A magnitude 9.5 earthquake – the strongest ever recorded – devastated Valdivia, Chile, and generated destructive tsunamis that reached Hawaii the following day.

★11 Jan 1961
Students at the University of Georgia rioted in an attempt to prevent two African American students from attending the school.

★11 Apr 1963
Pope John XXIII issued Pacem in terris, the first papal encyclical addressed to "all men of good will", rather than only to Catholics.

★29 Jun 1974
Isabel Perón was sworn in as the first female President of Argentina, replacing her ill husband Juan Perón, who died two days later.

★11 Feb 1979
The Pahlavi dynasty of Iran effectively collapsed when the military declared itself "neutral" after rebel troops overwhelmed forces loyal to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in armed street fighting.

★23 Apr 1985
The Coca-Cola Company replaced its flagship soft drink, Coca-Cola, with "New Coke", which generated so much negative response that the company put the previous formula back on the market less than three months later.

★13 Mar 1986
Claiming the right of innocent passage, American warships USS Yorktown and USS Caron entered the Soviet territorial waters in the Black Sea, inciting Soviet combat readiness.

★13 May 1992
Li Hongzhi introduced Falun Gong in a public lecture in Changchun, Jilin province, China.

★24 Aug 1992
Hurricane Andrew made landfall in South Florida, the third most intense Category 5 system to hit the United States during the 20th century.

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