Gypsy opened at Broadway Theater in NYC for 702 performances.
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All My Children star Susan Lucci, at last, won a Daytime Emmy after being nominated 19 times, the longest period of unsuccessful nominations in television history.
Bob Marley received a state funeral in Jamaica.
Russia declared an end to the Russian-Circassian War.
French Taubira law officially recognized the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity.
In the Spirit of St Louis, Aviator Charles Lindbergh landed in Paris after the first-ever solo air crossing of Atlantic.