Nelly Saunders and Rose Harland fought in America’s first public women’s boxing match.
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British bomber planes obliterated 89% of Würzburg, Germany, within just 20 minutes.
The world's first liquid-fueled rocket was launched.
George Clooney and Martin Luther King III were arrested at the Sudanese Embassy in Washington, DC.
Mississippi formally ratified the Thirteenth Amendment and became the last state to approve the abolition of slavery.
The first African American newspaper called 'Freedom's Journal' was published in the US.
