The NASCAR organization is first incorporated.

The Parícutin volcano in Mexico starts to form.

Soldiers in the Sri Lankan Army kill 80 Tamil farm workers in the eastern province of Sri Lanka.

Hawthorne Nevada Airlines Flight 708 crashes into a mountain killing all on board.

Newsweek magazine is published for the first time.

Flooding from the North Sea in the coastal areas of West Germany kills 315 and destroys the homes of about 60,000 people.

The complete human genome is published in scientific magazine, Nature.

James Cook is killed near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii.

Israel gets four of the seven Dead Sea scrolls.