The world record for rainfall dumped 6.1 feet (1.87m) of rain on Cilaos, Island of Réunion.
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The world's first liquid-fueled rocket was launched.
Van's opened its first store at 704 East Broadway in Anaheim, California.
King Gustav III of Sweden was shot during a masquerade ball at the Royal Opera Hall in Stockholm.
George Clooney and Martin Luther King III were arrested at the Sudanese Embassy in Washington, DC.
The first African American newspaper called 'Freedom's Journal' was published in the US.
