Hard Job Being God, a Broadway musical, closed at the Edison Theater NYC after six performances.
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President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Acts into law.
After decades of failed attempts to reach the Indies, Vasco da Gama arrived in Calicut, India.
Amelia Earhart took off from Newfoundland.
Elton John and his entourage flew into Moscow, making him the first western pop star to tour the USSR.
The Pictish armies of King Bridei Mac Bili won a decisive victory over the armies of Northumbria at the Battle of Dun Nechtain.
