Maynard Jackson was elected as the first black Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia.
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Queen Marie Antoinette was executed during the French Revolution.
Walt and Roy O. Disney founded the Walt Disney Company.
The Tremont Hotel in Boston became the first modern hotel in the United States.
A stampede of 47,000 football fans killed 84 people and injured 180 more in Guatemala City.
Astronomers witnessed the first neutron star collision.