Rockband Green Day released their seventh album, “American Idiot.”
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After 14 years in space, NASA's Galileo spacecraft was intentionally destroyed in Jupiter's atmosphere.
A report published claimed that the fossils of Dickinsonia were the oldest animals to roam the planet.
Widespread forest fires in Indonesia caused the skies to turn red.
Sir Cecil Herbert Edward Chubb became the last private owner of Stonehenge, Wiltshire, England.
Malta gained independence from the United Kingdom.