Kurt Cobain from Nirvana committed suicide at age 27 by shooting himself in the head with a shotgun.
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American Indian princess Pocahontas married English tobacco planter, John Rolfe.
North Korea performed a controversial intercontinental ballistic missile test.
Jacob Roggeveen discovered Easter Island.
North Korea launched the infamous Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 satellite.
Dolby stereo was used for the first time on David Letterman.
