Van’s opened its first store at 704 East Broadway in Anaheim, California.
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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.
Mississippi formally ratified the Thirteenth Amendment and became the last state to approve the abolition of slavery.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average experienced the single-largest point drop in history.
The world record for rainfall dumped 6.1 feet (1.87m) of rain on Cilaos, Island of Réunion.
