Martin Luther King Jr. was jailed while performing a public prayer at the city hall in Albany, Georgia, US.
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Tony Hawk landed the first '900' on a skateboard at the 5th annual X Games in San Francisco.
Around 1,000 prisoners escaped from Queyfiya Prison in Benghazi, Libya.
NASA decided to suspend space shuttle flights after analyzing the launch of mission STS-114.
The musical 'Little Shop of Horrors' by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman premiered on Broadway at Orpheum Theater, New York, US.
The Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War was signed in Geneva, Switzerland.
