Beethoven performed his first concert “for his benefit” at Austria’s Royal Imperial Court Theatre.
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New York Times Newspaper officially declared that the Cold War was over.
Sixty-six people died in Sverdlovsk, USSR, when a bio-warfare lab accidentally released airborne anthrax.
Explorer Juan Ponce de León found Florida and claimed it for Spain.
The Coinage Act was enacted in the US.
Martin Luther King started his first of many non-violent demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama, US.
