Britney Spears’s first single, “Baby One More Time,” was released.
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The Smurfs were published for the first time in Spirou magazine in Belgium.
The bank robber John Dillinger and his gang robbed $75,000 from the Central National Bank in Greencastle, Indiana.
A 2,400-year-old shipwreck found in the Black Sea became the world's oldest intact shipwreck ever discovered.
The biographic drama movie 'Bohemian Rhapsody,' about Freddie Mercury, premiered at Wembley Arena in London, UK.
Elton John became the 1,662nd person to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.