Laurel and Hardy team up, a human heart is transplanted for the first time, an assassin targets Bob Marley, and the first text message is sent via phone, all on this day.
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1965: Figure skater Katarina Witt, who would go on to win two Olympic gold medals and four world championships for East Germany in the 1980s, is born in Staaken, East Germany.