The first African American newspaper called “Freedom’s Journal” was published in the US.
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George Clooney and Martin Luther King III were arrested at the Sudanese Embassy in Washington, DC.
Nelly Saunders and Rose Harland fought in America's first public women's boxing match.
King Gustav III of Sweden was shot during a masquerade ball at the Royal Opera Hall in Stockholm.
The world's first liquid-fueled rocket was launched.
Mississippi formally ratified the Thirteenth Amendment and became the last state to approve the abolition of slavery.
