Luciano Pavarotti’s final opera took place at New York Metropolitan Opera.
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Sixteen primary school children and one teacher were killed in a mass shooting in Dunblane, Scotland.
Prolific killer John Wayne Gacy was given the death sentence for the murder of 33 young men and boys.
Marvel's 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier' premiered in Los Angeles.
Pope Leo XII renewed the prohibition of members of the Catholic Church from joining the Freemasons.
The US army enlisted its first female colonel, Julia Flikke.
