The Bolivian city of Potosí was founded after vast deposits of silver were discovered in the mountains nearby.
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NASA celebrated April Fool's Day by telling the world that they found water on Mars.
The US Air Force accidentally bombed the Swiss city of Schaffhausen.
The lost Roman city of Pompeii was rediscovered by a Spanish engineer Rocque Joaquin de Alcubierre.
Marvin Gaye died after his father shot him twice in Los Angeles.
Bonnie and Clyde shot two highway patrolmen outside Grapevine, Texas.