The first game of the Negro National League was played at Washington Park in Indianapolis.
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An assassination attempt was made on Gangster Frank Costello.
William Herschel discovered the first binary star.
139,000 people lost their lives when Cyclone Nargis made landfall in Myanmar.
Kanye West claimed that African-American slaves in the US remained slaves by choice.
The Writers Guild of America went on strike after a labor dispute.
