Asteroid 323 Brucia became the first asteroid discovered using photography.
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A powerful tsunami hit Indonesia.
Doctors Without Borders was founded in Paris by French doctors and journalists.
A samurai called Itō Hirobumi became Japan's first Prime Minister.
The 2018 partial shutdown of the US federal government began.
Richard Reid, infamously known as the 'shoe bomber,' attempted to blow up an airplane with explosives in his shoes.