STS 44 Atlantis 10 was launched into space.
It was the US’s 7th spacecraft launch.
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Abel Tasman became the first European to discover Tasmania and named it Van Diemen's Land.
Photographer Alfred Stieglitz opened The Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession in Manhattan, New York.
Charles Darwin published his revolutionary work, On the Origin of Species.
A party boat on Lake Victoria in Uganda capsized and killed 29 people.
Ireland ended its ban on divorce.
