President George Washington appointed Alexander Hamilton as the first Secretary of the US Treasury.
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Florence Chadwick became the first female to swim across the English Channel and back.
NASA revealed that water vapor was discovered in the atmosphere of an Earth-size planet, the exoplanet K2-18b.
The Destruction of Santiago occurred when the Spanish conquistadors and the Mapuche-Picunche tribes had a confrontation.
Nahalal, the first moshav in modern-day Israel, was settled.
A Faucett Perú 727 airliner disappeared without a trace off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada.
