Molecular biologists Dr. James Watson and Dr. Francis Crick identify the double helix structure of DNA. Watson, an American scientist, worked with Crick at Cambridge University in England, later releasing their discovery in Nature magazine and were later honored with the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Following the liberation of Kuwait City, Operation Desert Storm ends as President George H.W. Bush announces a ceasefire. Coalition ground forces entered Kuwait just 100 hours before the ceasefire was implemented, proving to be one of the shortest wars in military history.
During a Potomac River cruise, a gun aboard the USS Princeton explodes, killing Secretary of State Abel Upshur and five others. President John Tyler was aboard the Princeton but was below deck during the explosion, which helped avoiding serious injury.
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