Martin Luther King Jr. was jailed while performing a public prayer at the city hall in Albany, Georgia, US.
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The musical 'Little Shop of Horrors' by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman premiered on Broadway at Orpheum Theater, New York, US.
Around 1,000 prisoners escaped from Queyfiya Prison in Benghazi, Libya.
Vincent van Gogh shot himself at a wheat field in Auvers-Sur-Oise, France, and died from his wounds two days later.
The first recorded example of having to 'quarantine' was written by The Ragusan Republic.
The Battle of Bouvines began.
