Billboard magazine started ranking sales of recorded songs.
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Tony Hawk landed the first '900' on a skateboard at the 5th annual X Games in San Francisco.
Martin Luther King Jr. was jailed while performing a public prayer at the city hall in Albany, Georgia, US.
Oliver Cromwell's forces from Cambridgeshire and forces from Nottingham met near Gainsborough, ready to battle the following day in the Battle of Gainsborough.
The first recorded example of having to 'quarantine' was written by The Ragusan Republic.
Vincent van Gogh shot himself at a wheat field in Auvers-Sur-Oise, France, and died from his wounds two days later.
