US President Barack Obama met with the Dalai Lama amid warnings from China.
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Russia declared the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic as independent states.
Malcolm X was assassinated in New York City, USA.
The first issue of 'The New Yorker' was published.
Saint Francis Xavier Church in Baltimore, Maryland, became the first church exclusively for blacks in the US.
The Jackson 5 performed on TV for the first time on American Bandstand.