Around 1,000 prisoners escaped from Queyfiya Prison in Benghazi, Libya.
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Billboard magazine started ranking sales of recorded songs.
Vincent van Gogh shot himself at a wheat field in Auvers-Sur-Oise, France, and died from his wounds two days later.
The Battle of Bouvines began.
Tony Hawk landed the first '900' on a skateboard at the 5th annual X Games in San Francisco.
Martin Luther King Jr. was jailed while performing a public prayer at the city hall in Albany, Georgia, US.