Casey Stengel announced that he was retiring from managing the New York Mets after 55 years in baseball.
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Danny Boyle and Loveleen Tandan's Slumdog Millionaire premiered at Colorado’s Telluride Film Festival.
Fanny Kaplan, a Ukrainian Jewish Socialist Revolutionary, attempted to assassinate Vladimir Lenin.
Honolulu became an official city.
The first Europeans started the first permanent settlement of Melbourne.
HMS Pandora sank at The Great Barrier Reef after a voyage to hunt down the Bounty mutineers in 1790.
