Also on this day: Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Pacific Ocean after passing through the South American strait that would bear his name.The Confederate Congress admits Missouri as the 12th state of the Confederacy after Missouri’s disputed secession from the Union.
Sinn Fein is founded in Dublin. Future movie producer Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie theater in Haverhill, Mass. Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No.
3 in D minor, Op. 30 has its world premiere in New York, with Rachmaninoff at the piano. Fire engulfs the Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Boston, killing 492 people in the deadliest nightclub blaze ever.
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