Eileen Collins became the first female space shuttle commander with the launch of mission STS-93.
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The Chinese Communist Party was founded in Shanghai.
Inventor William Austin Burt patented the typographer, also known as the typewriter in the US.
The first US woman in space, Sally Ride, died from pancreatic cancer at the age of 61.
Forty-three people were killed in the Detroit Riots, one of the worst riots in US history.
British boyband One Direction was formed during X-Factor UK.