King Gustav III of Sweden was shot during a masquerade ball at the Royal Opera Hall in Stockholm.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average experienced the single-largest point drop in history.
British bomber planes obliterated 89% of Würzburg, Germany, within just 20 minutes.
Mississippi formally ratified the Thirteenth Amendment and became the last state to approve the abolition of slavery.
Van's opened its first store at 704 East Broadway in Anaheim, California.
The first African American newspaper called 'Freedom's Journal' was published in the US.
