The science-fiction movie “The Martian,” starring Matt Damon, premiered in Toronto, Canada.
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Janet Parker became the last person to die of smallpox in Birmingham, United Kingdom.
The video game console Atari 2600 was released.
Florence Chadwick became the first female to swim across the English Channel and back.
The Destruction of Santiago occurred when the Spanish conquistadors and the Mapuche-Picunche tribes had a confrontation.
NASA revealed that water vapor was discovered in the atmosphere of an Earth-size planet, the exoplanet K2-18b.