St Matthew Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach premiered in Leipzig, Germany.
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The island of Malta was awarded the George Cross by King George VI of England.
Aretha Franklin, who died August 16, 2018, won the Pulitzer Prize.
The Titanic sunk at 2:20 am in the North Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Newfoundland.
NASA launched a spacecraft to rendezvous with a small communication satellite.
Canada no longer accepted US silver coins as legal tender in the country.
