Hard Job Being God, a Broadway musical, closed at the Edison Theater NYC after six performances.
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The Pictish armies of King Bridei Mac Bili won a decisive victory over the armies of Northumbria at the Battle of Dun Nechtain.
The Church of Scotland voted in favor of allowing openly gay men and women to be ministers.
President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Acts into law.
Quebec held a referendum on whether to begin negotiations with Canada to become independent.
Amelia Earhart took off from Newfoundland.