The US Department of Foreign Affairs, the fledgling nation’s first federal agency, was established.
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Oliver Cromwell's forces from Cambridgeshire and forces from Nottingham met near Gainsborough, ready to battle the following day in the Battle of Gainsborough.
NASA decided to suspend space shuttle flights after analyzing the launch of mission STS-114.
Martin Luther King Jr. was jailed while performing a public prayer at the city hall in Albany, Georgia, US.
Around 1,000 prisoners escaped from Queyfiya Prison in Benghazi, Libya.
Tobacco arrived in England for the first time.
