Hard Job Being God, a Broadway musical, closed at the Edison Theater NYC after six performances.
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Shakespeare's Sonnets were first published in London.
The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope was shown to members of the National Federation of Women's Club.
The Church of Scotland voted in favor of allowing openly gay men and women to be ministers.
Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis patented the first blue jeans with copper rivets.
The US Air Force Space Command launched the Boeing X-37B spaceplane for a classified mission.