Buffy the Vampire Slayer premiered on the Warner Bros Television Network.
Source
In France, 1,099 miners lost their lives in what is known as Europe's worst mining disaster.
All nine planets (including Pluto) lined up with the sun.
American fugitive James Earl Ray pleaded guilty to murdering Martin Luther King Jr.
Diego Velázquez's painting 'The Toilet of Venus' was destroyed by suffragettes at a museum in London.
Mahatma Gandhi was sentenced to six years in prison for his civil disobedience during a protest.