The body of former CIA director William Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland
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The final episode of the television sitcom Friends was aired.
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The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance
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Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrives in New Netherland (present day Manhattan Island) aboard the See Meeuw.
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is incorporated.
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NBC inaugurates its regularly scheduled television service in New York City
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The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd
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CBS News releases evidence of the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse. The photographs show rape and abuse from the American troops over Iraqi detainees.
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Johann Sebastian Bach leads the first performance of his cantata Du Hirte Israel
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NATO bombs the headquarters of Radio Television of Serbia
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Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
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Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco.
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President Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth. Three hours later
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U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford’s Theatre by John Wilkes Booth; Lincoln dies the following day.
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The first ever commercial motion picture house opens in New York City
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