Three days after the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in 1968, performer Nina Simone and her band played at the Westbury Music Festival on Long Island, N.Y. They performed "Why? (The King of Love is Dead)," a song they had just learned, written by their bass player Gene Taylor in reaction to King's death.
http://www.npr.org/2008/04/06/89418339/why-remembering-nina-simones-tribute-to-the-rev-martin-luther-king-jr
French police fatally shoot a man suspected of planning to set fire to a
synagogue
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French police shot and killed a man armed with a knife and a metal bar who
is suspected of having set fire to a synagogue in the Normandy city of
Rouen ear...
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