The colony of Victoria, Australia, was hit by the Black Thursday bushfires, burning 19,000 square miles.
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Astronaut Alan Shepard was the first to hit a golf ball on the Moon.
William Painter secured a patent for the capped bottle opener.
ScienceMag reported that honey bees are found to be able to use colors to help them carry out simple arithmetic.
The Animated sitcom 'American Dad' aired for the first time on FOX.
Turkey and Syria were struck by a catastrophic 7.8 magnitude earthquake that killed 59,259 people.