Casey Stengel announced that he was retiring from managing the New York Mets after 55 years in baseball.
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Honolulu became an official city.
Fanny Kaplan, a Ukrainian Jewish Socialist Revolutionary, attempted to assassinate Vladimir Lenin.
HMS Pandora sank at The Great Barrier Reef after a voyage to hunt down the Bounty mutineers in 1790.
The second-largest mosque in Africa officially opened in Casablanca, Morocco.
Argentina raised interest rates to 60% to try and maintain the Peso.
