Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera “Don Giovanni” premiered in Prague.
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Pope Innocent IX was elected.
Istanbul Airport was opened by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Nigel Richards won the World Scrabble Championships for the fourth time in a row with the word 'groutier.'
The first American astronaut to orbit Earth, John Glenn, returned to space aboard NASA's STS-95 Voyager.
The International Committee of the Red Cross was formed when eighteen countries gathered in Geneva, Switzerland.