Beethoven composed his famous short piano piece, “Für Elise.”
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Babe Ruth Day was commemorated for the first time to celebrate one of baseball's greatest players of all time.
Heinrich Himmler ordered the construction of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp.
Pripyat and surrounding areas were evacuated due to the Chernobyl disaster.
NASA launched the Explorer 11 satellite atop a Juno II rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Michael Jordan married his second wife, Yvette Prieto, at Palm Beach, Florida, US.
