The guitar that Kurt Cobain used during Nirvana’s 1993 MTV Unplugged in New York show sold for $6 million.
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New Hampshire became the 9th state to join the United States of America.
Construction on the world's longest railway in Russia was completed.
A Dutch pensions advisor, Johan de Witt, was severely wounded in a knife attack.
King Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and their immediate family fled their home at the beginning of the French Revolution.
Two newly discovered moons orbiting Pluto were named Nix and Hydra.
