Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky composed his “Swan Lake” ballet.
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Edward & Sarah Bishop and seven others were examined by Magistrates in Salem, Massachusetts, for witchcraft.
Thieves stole $3.3 million from the First National Bank of Arizona in Tucson.
President Richard Nixon died of a stroke at the age of 81.
Twenty million Americans mobilized to call for greater protections for our planet. This became the world's first Earth Day.
The German army used chlorine gas for the first time.
