Nelly Saunders and Rose Harland fought in America’s first public women’s boxing match.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average experienced the single-largest point drop in history.
The world record for rainfall dumped 6.1 feet (1.87m) of rain on Cilaos, Island of Réunion.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono were served deportation papers for overstaying in the US.
Democratic Senator Robert F. Kennedy started his presidential campaign.
Mississippi formally ratified the Thirteenth Amendment and became the last state to approve the abolition of slavery.
