James Wallace Black took the USA’s first aerial photo in Boston from a hot air balloon.
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Charles Messier discovered the Whirlpool Galaxy.
All 33 miners trapped after a mining accident in Chile were rescued after being stuck underground for 69 days.
Cellular mobile phone service was made available to the American public for the first time.
Microsoft purchased Activision Blizzard in a record-breaking $69 billion takeover.
115,000-year-old human bones found in Poland turned out to be from a Neanderthal child who was eaten by a giant bird.
