German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited Athens and was met by 50,000 protestors.
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The Dublin and Kingstown Railway officially opened.
Hoover Dam began producing electricity and transmitting it to Los Angeles, California.
A fragment of a meteorite landed in Peekskill, New York, US, and smashed a 1980 Chevrolet Malibu.
British Parliament met at the University of Oxford rather than the Palace of Westminster during the Great Plague of London.
The South Korean alphabet, called 'Hangul,' was published.
