The first lighthouse in America was given the green light to be built at Little Brewster Island, Massachusetts.
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Benjamin Franklin sailed from England back to the US to work for a Quaker merchant in Philadelphia.
Eileen Collins became the first female space shuttle commander with the launch of mission STS-93.
British boyband One Direction was formed during X-Factor UK.
The Chinese Communist Party was founded in Shanghai.
The first US woman in space, Sally Ride, died from pancreatic cancer at the age of 61.
