Taylor Swift became the world’s first musician to become a billionaire solely from songs and concerts.
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Mafia boss John Gotti was convicted of thirteen murders and racketeering.
The '2001: A Space Odyssey' sci-fi movie premiered in Washington, DC.
The armies of Sultan Mehmed II arrived at Constantinople's outer walls and prepared to lay siege to the city.
Beethoven performed his first concert 'for his benefit' at Austria's Royal Imperial Court Theatre.
Sixty-six people died in Sverdlovsk, USSR, when a bio-warfare lab accidentally released airborne anthrax.
