Martin Luther King Jr. was jailed while performing a public prayer at the city hall in Albany, Georgia, US.
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NASA decided to suspend space shuttle flights after analyzing the launch of mission STS-114.
The Battle of Bouvines began.
The musical 'Little Shop of Horrors' by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman premiered on Broadway at Orpheum Theater, New York, US.
Around 1,000 prisoners escaped from Queyfiya Prison in Benghazi, Libya.
Vincent van Gogh shot himself at a wheat field in Auvers-Sur-Oise, France, and died from his wounds two days later.