Chris Cornell, American musician of Soundgarden and Audioslave, committed suicide at age 52 by hanging.
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India had their first successful nuclear bomb test.
The Crusaders lost control of the city of Acre, the Kingdom of Jerusalem's last bastion, after a fourteen-day siege.
The Worms massacre began.
The Republican Party nominated Abraham Lincoln for president at the 1860 Republican National Convention.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Tennessee Valley Act to build dams.
