NASA launched the Gemini program’s tenth and final crewed spacecraft, Gemini 12.
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The Manchester Ship Canal started its construction in Eastham, England.
The first college fraternity, The Flat Hat Society, was formed in the Raleigh Tavern at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Christopher Columbus discovered Sint Maarten in the West Indies.
Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe witnessed the supernova SN 1572.
Washington became the 42nd state to join the United States of America.
