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At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
Racially motivated Nihon Shōgakkō fire lit by a serial arsonist kills 10 children in Sacramento, California.
The General Electric Company is formed.
Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London.
Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel, receives its premiere performance in London, England.
Born: Catherine I of Russia (died 1727).
The Lateran Council ends by condemning the Council of Hieria and anathematizing its iconoclastic rulings.
Died: Suiko, emperor of Japan (born 554).