The United States exhibited the country’s first-ever lion in Boston.
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President Richard Nixon signed the US Endangered Species Act into law.
Sputnik 2 soviet spacecraft burned up, returning through Earth's atmosphere.
Julius Wolff supplied the first canned sardines from Maine, USA.
Thousands of pigeons went missing after a freak weather incident.
The famous elephant called Topsy was executed at Luna Park, Coney Island, in New York.
