Chris Cornell, American musician of Soundgarden and Audioslave, committed suicide at age 52 by hanging.
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The Chinese Theater opened in Hollywood, California, built in an Exotic Revival style architecture.
The Crusaders lost control of the city of Acre, the Kingdom of Jerusalem's last bastion, after a fourteen-day siege.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Tennessee Valley Act to build dams.
Britain declared war on France after Napoleon Bonaparte continued interfering in Italy and Switzerland.
Napoleon Bonaparte was declared the Emperor of France by the French Senate.
