Explorer Juan Ponce de León found Florida and claimed it for Spain.
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Sixty-six people died in Sverdlovsk, USSR, when a bio-warfare lab accidentally released airborne anthrax.
COVID-19 claimed the life of comedian Eddie Large from 'Little and Large.'
Mafia boss John Gotti was convicted of thirteen murders and racketeering.
Martin Luther King started his first of many non-violent demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama, US.
The International Criminal Court opened its first office in Venezuela following allegations of torture and killings by the country's security forces.
