STS 44 Atlantis 10 was launched into space.
It was the US’s 7th spacecraft launch.
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Photographer Alfred Stieglitz opened The Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession in Manhattan, New York.
An international research team published their discovery of 1,500 new viruses that were in invertebrates in Australia and China.
From this day until February 10, 1435, London's Thames river completely froze.
Astronomers Jeremiah Horrocks and William Crabtree recorded the first known observation of a transit of Venus across the sun.
Abel Tasman became the first European to discover Tasmania and named it Van Diemen's Land.
