STS 44 Atlantis 10 was launched into space.
It was the US’s 7th spacecraft launch.
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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.
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.
A four-day ceasefire in Gaza between HAMAS and Israeli forces began.
An international research team published their discovery of 1,500 new viruses that were in invertebrates in Australia and China.