China’s Chang’e-4 became the first spacecraft to successfully land on the far side of the Moon.
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A woman in Rome became the first person to receive a bionic hand that can sense touch.
The Apple Computer Company became Apple Computers Inc.
British Novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine left England for America on board the Britannia ship.
Roman Emperor Decius ordered everyone in the Roman Empire to make sacrifices to the Roman gods.
Workers began construction on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York.