The category 5 hurricane Irma began dissipating, but the disaster left millions without electricity in Florida and Georgia.
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Florence Chadwick became the first female to swim across the English Channel and back.
NASA revealed that water vapor was discovered in the atmosphere of an Earth-size planet, the exoplanet K2-18b.
The Destruction of Santiago occurred when the Spanish conquistadors and the Mapuche-Picunche tribes had a confrontation.
Janet Parker became the last person to die of smallpox in Birmingham, United Kingdom.
The English were defeated at the Battle of Stirling Bridge.