Martin Luther King Jr. was jailed while performing a public prayer at the city hall in Albany, Georgia, US.
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NASA decided to suspend space shuttle flights after analyzing the launch of mission STS-114.
The Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War was signed in Geneva, Switzerland.
Tony Hawk landed the first '900' on a skateboard at the 5th annual X Games in San Francisco.
The US Department of Foreign Affairs, the fledgling nation's first federal agency, was established.
Tobacco arrived in England for the first time.
