President George Washington appointed Alexander Hamilton as the first Secretary of the US Treasury.
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Nahalal, the first moshav in modern-day Israel, was settled.
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.
The category 5 hurricane Irma began dissipating, but the disaster left millions without electricity in Florida and Georgia.
Two planes crashed into the World Trade Towers in New York City.
