Around 1,000 prisoners escaped from Queyfiya Prison in Benghazi, Libya.
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Vincent van Gogh shot himself at a wheat field in Auvers-Sur-Oise, France, and died from his wounds two days later.
Queen Elizabeth II of England declared the 30th Olympics opened in London, UK.
The US Department of Foreign Affairs, the fledgling nation's first federal agency, was established.
NASA decided to suspend space shuttle flights after analyzing the launch of mission STS-114.
Martin Luther King Jr. was jailed while performing a public prayer at the city hall in Albany, Georgia, US.
