Times Square Theater opened with a capacity of 1,032.
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Parliament officially nominated Henry IV as Richard II's successor and proclaimed him king of England.
American animated sitcom 'The Flintstones,' which romanticized the Stone Age debuted on ABC.
A super-massive iceberg broke away from Antarctica.
NASA launched the Endeavour space shuttle from the Kennedy Space Center on Mission STS-68.
Jack the Ripper killed his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.