STS 44 Atlantis 10 was launched into space.
It was the US’s 7th spacecraft launch.
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A party boat on Lake Victoria in Uganda capsized and killed 29 people.
Astronomers Jeremiah Horrocks and William Crabtree recorded the first known observation of a transit of Venus across the sun.
D.B. Cooper hijacked a Boeing 727 and extorted a ransom of $200,000 before parachuting out of the plane with the money and was never seen again.
A catastrophic landslide on Mont Granier destroyed five villages.
An international research team published their discovery of 1,500 new viruses that were in invertebrates in Australia and China.
