Argentina raised interest rates to 60% to try and maintain the Peso.
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Casey Stengel announced that he was retiring from managing the New York Mets after 55 years in baseball.
The first Europeans started the first permanent settlement of Melbourne.
Honolulu became an official city.
Danny Boyle and Loveleen Tandan's Slumdog Millionaire premiered at Colorado’s Telluride Film Festival.
Fanny Kaplan, a Ukrainian Jewish Socialist Revolutionary, attempted to assassinate Vladimir Lenin.
