The Cincinnati Red Stockings played their first game, winning with 45-9 against the Great Westerns of Cincinnati.
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Emmy Award winner Julia Louis-Dreyfus, star of 'Seinfeld,' received the 2,407th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
United States civilians received ration books for the first time.
Pope Alexander VI divided the New World between Spain and Portugal.
Star Wars actress Carrie Fisher was posthumously awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Margaret Thatcher became Britain's first female prime minister.
