Rockband Green Day released their seventh album, “American Idiot.”
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The Netflix limited series about the life of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was released.
After 14 years in space, NASA's Galileo spacecraft was intentionally destroyed in Jupiter's atmosphere.
English author J. R. R. Tolkien released his critically acclaimed book 'The Hobbit.'
In the Second Opium War, an Anglo-French force defeated Chinese troops at the Battle of Palikao.
The survival movie 'Into the Wild,' starring Emile Hirsch, premiered at the Rome Film Festival.
