The Japanese Prime Minister, Hara Takashi, was assassinated in Tokyo.
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A plane crash in South Sudan at Juba International Airport killed 31 people.
462 non-violent inmates were released from Oklahoma prisons in the largest commutation in American history.
The first wagon train arrived in California after having left Independence, Missouri, in May 1841.
J.K. Rowling's first Harry Potter Movie, 'The Philosopher's Stone,' premiered in Leicester Square, London, UK.
After a second siege, Joan of Arc liberated the town of Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier, France.
