The Junkers Ju 287, the first jet with forward-swept wings, made its first flight.
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Nikephoros II Phokas was crowned emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
NASA launched its Active Magnetospheric Particle Tracer Explorers mission (AMPTE) from the Cape Canaveral launch pad.
Julian Assange, who founded WikiLeaks, was given political asylum by Ecuador.
More than 1,200 tin homes were destroyed after a fire broke out in the Chalantika slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Over 566 wildfires swept through British Columbia in Canada, which led to a State of Emergency, and 3,000 people were evacuated.
