The US Department of Foreign Affairs, the fledgling nation’s first federal agency, was established.
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Around 1,000 prisoners escaped from Queyfiya Prison in Benghazi, Libya.
Martin Luther King Jr. was jailed while performing a public prayer at the city hall in Albany, Georgia, US.
Oliver Cromwell's forces from Cambridgeshire and forces from Nottingham met near Gainsborough, ready to battle the following day in the Battle of Gainsborough.
The musical 'Little Shop of Horrors' by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman premiered on Broadway at Orpheum Theater, New York, US.
NASA decided to suspend space shuttle flights after analyzing the launch of mission STS-114.