Nelly Saunders and Rose Harland fought in America’s first public women’s boxing match.
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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.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono were served deportation papers for overstaying in the US.
Van's opened its first store at 704 East Broadway in Anaheim, California.
Mississippi formally ratified the Thirteenth Amendment and became the last state to approve the abolition of slavery.
