Three Russian cosmonauts returned from space after spending a record time of 237 days in orbit.
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Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first black US Supreme Court Justice.
Adolf Hitler's German military attacked Moscow.
EA Games' FIFA 10, the highest-rated FIFA game made, was released in Europe.
A team of scientists invented the sports drink Gatorade in a University of Florida lab.
During the American Revolutionary War, John André, a British Army officer, was hanged as a spy by the Continental Army.