The first official performance of Macbeth by Shakespeare took place at the Globe Theatre in London, England.
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Nazi-German ace fighter pilot, The Red Baron, shot down his final two victims.
Oliver Cromwell dissolved England's Rump Parliament.
A swamp rabbit attacked President Jimmy Carter while he was fishing in Plains, Georgia.
French mathematician Pierre Louis Maupertuis began his journey to Lapland to plot the shape of the Earth.
Captain James Cook arrived at the shore in New South Wales, Australia.