New York Times Newspaper officially declared that the Cold War was over.
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Beethoven performed his first concert 'for his benefit' at Austria's Royal Imperial Court Theatre.
Explorer Juan Ponce de León found Florida and claimed it for Spain.
Sixty-six people died in Sverdlovsk, USSR, when a bio-warfare lab accidentally released airborne anthrax.
Martin Luther King started his first of many non-violent demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama, US.
The Soviet Union's Zond 1 space probe was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
