King Gustav III of Sweden was shot during a masquerade ball at the Royal Opera Hall in Stockholm.
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The world's first liquid-fueled rocket was launched.
British bomber planes obliterated 89% of Würzburg, Germany, within just 20 minutes.
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.
Samoset became the first Native American to make contact with the Plymouth colony.
