The Supremes first appeared on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” singing “Come See About Me.”
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Chicago, the film based on the musical and directed by Rob Marshall, was released.
Between 20,000 and 40,000 people died in a magnitude eight earthquake in Erzincan, Turkey.
Radiation from an explosion on the magnetar SGR 1806-20 reached Earth.
The 'Flushing Remonstrance' petition was signed in the Dutch colony of New Netherland, which protested the ban on Quaker worship.
Leonard Cohen released his debut album 'Songs of Leonard Cohen' through Columbia Records.