Radio City Music Hall opened in New York City.
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Spain decreed the Laws of Burgos, the first set of laws that attempted to govern Spaniards abroad in the Americas.
Between 20,000 and 40,000 people died in a magnitude eight earthquake in Erzincan, Turkey.
Benazir Bhutto was assassinated.
The 'Flushing Remonstrance' petition was signed in the Dutch colony of New Netherland, which protested the ban on Quaker worship.
Chicago, the film based on the musical and directed by Rob Marshall, was released.
