New York became the first US court to allow blood test results to be used as evidence.
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The first historically Black intercollegiate Greek-lettered fraternity, Alpha Phi Alpha, was founded.
Rain Man, directed by Barry Levinson, starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise, premiered in New York.
Twelve doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston performed the first successful reattachment of a human limb – it was the severed arm of a boy.
The EF2 tornado ripped through Brooklyn, New York, for 18 minutes, causing nine injuries and $20 million in damages.
The first yacht race across the Atlantic Ocean began.
