Hard Job Being God, a Broadway musical, closed at the Edison Theater NYC after six performances.
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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.
Shakespeare's Sonnets were first published in London.
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.
