Pope Celestine V resigned after just five months in the job to return to his life as an ascetic hermit.
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Sir Francis Drake set sail from England on a circumnavigation of the world.
NASA launched the first-ever active repeater communications satellite.
The English transport ship Duke William sank in the North Atlantic, killing over 360 people.
The first music store in America was opened in Philadelphia by Michael Hillegas.
The online dictionary, Merriam-Webster, stated their most searched word of the year was 'Feminism.'
