Yohl Ik’nal ascended to the throne of Palenque, making her the first queen regnant in Maya history.
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Vincent van Gogh cut his left ear off with a razor after an argument with fellow painter Paul Gauguin.
Plane crash survivors of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 were rescued.
Cinderella, the first full-length ballet by Frederick Ashton with music by Sergei Prokofiev, was first presented at Covent Garden, London, by Sadler's Wells Ballet.
A gas explosion occurred in Guoqiao, Kai, Chongqing, China.
After eleven months of imprisonment, 83 men from the US Navy were released by North Korea.
