Edmond Halley was given the senior post as the second Astronomer Royal at Greenwich Observatory.
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Tom and Jerry made their debut appearance.
Twelve Anabaptists paraded through Amsterdam completely naked.
The HMS Dreadnought battleship was christened.
Two Australian warships, the HMAS Melbourne and the HMAS Voyager, collided off the New South Wales coast.
A computer defeated world champion chess player Gary Kasparov for the first time.
