King Gustav III of Sweden was shot during a masquerade ball at the Royal Opera Hall in Stockholm.
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Nelly Saunders and Rose Harland fought in America's first public women's boxing match.
The world's first liquid-fueled rocket was launched.
George Clooney and Martin Luther King III were arrested at the Sudanese Embassy in Washington, DC.
The first African American newspaper called 'Freedom's Journal' was published in the US.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average experienced the single-largest point drop in history.
