Google Play was launched.
The app store gives android users a platform to find and install applications.
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NASA announced that 16 researchers would be a part of a nine-month study on unidentified aerial phenomena or UFOs.
The Marvel superhero movie 'Thor: The Dark World' premiered in London, UK.
Inventor Chester Carlson created the first Xerox image.
Sam Houston was inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas.
American bank robber Charles Arthur Floyd, AKA Pretty Boy Floyd, was shot dead by the FBI.