Billboard magazine started ranking sales of recorded songs.
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NASA decided to suspend space shuttle flights after analyzing the launch of mission STS-114.
Around 1,000 prisoners escaped from Queyfiya Prison in Benghazi, Libya.
Oliver Cromwell's forces from Cambridgeshire and forces from Nottingham met near Gainsborough, ready to battle the following day in the Battle of Gainsborough.
Queen Elizabeth II of England declared the 30th Olympics opened in London, UK.
Tobacco arrived in England for the first time.
