Chris Cornell, American musician of Soundgarden and Audioslave, committed suicide at age 52 by hanging.
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Britain declared war on France after Napoleon Bonaparte continued interfering in Italy and Switzerland.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Tennessee Valley Act to build dams.
The Crusaders lost control of the city of Acre, the Kingdom of Jerusalem's last bastion, after a fourteen-day siege.
Northern Somalia declared its independence, becoming the unrecognized de facto Republic of Somaliland.
India had their first successful nuclear bomb test.
