Period drama movie “12 Years a Slave” premiered and went on to win Best Picture at the Telluride Film Festival in 2014.
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Casey Stengel announced that he was retiring from managing the New York Mets after 55 years in baseball.
HMS Pandora sank at The Great Barrier Reef after a voyage to hunt down the Bounty mutineers in 1790.
Amateur astronomer Gennady Borisov discovered a strange comet in another star system.
Honolulu became an official city.
The first Europeans started the first permanent settlement of Melbourne.