Benedetto Odescalchi was elected as Pope Innocent XI.
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Media mogul Rupert Murdoch stepped down as the chair of Fox and News Corp at the age of 92, choosing to pass the reins to his son, Lachlan.
Rockband Green Day released their seventh album, 'American Idiot.'
A Jellyfish was discovered and became the first-known animal that sleeps and doesn’t have a brain.
After 14 years in space, NASA's Galileo spacecraft was intentionally destroyed in Jupiter's atmosphere.
A report published claimed that the fossils of Dickinsonia were the oldest animals to roam the planet.
