Cristiano Ronaldo became the first non-Spanish player to captain Real Madrid.
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Missing Malaysian flight MH370 was announced to have been an accident with no survivors.
French President Jacques Chirac announced France's nuclear test program had finished.
The New York Evening Mirror published Edgar Allan Poe's famous poem 'The Raven.'
Margaret Thatcher became the first post-war prime minister who was refused a degree.
One of William Shakespeare's most acclaimed plays, ''Romeo & Juliet" was performed for the first time.
