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.
Amelia Earhart took off from Newfoundland.
The first Christian ecumenical council opens at Nicaea, Asia Minor. It was the first attempt to achieve agreement in the church.
The chandelier of the Palais Garnier Opera House broke, and its debris fell on a crowd.
Shakespeare's Sonnets were first published in London.
