Congress created the Oregon Territory, which included Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Western Montana.
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SpaceX successfully launched a Dragon spacecraft carrying the first supercomputer to space.
The world's most amazing face transplant took place.
The New York Eye Infirmary opened, and it was the first specialty hospital of its kind in the western hemisphere.
Mudslides and flooding in Sierra Leone's capital Freetown claimed the lives of 1,141 people and left 3,00 without homes.
A major blackout occurred in the Northeastern and Midwestern US along with Ontario, Canada.
