The category 5 hurricane Irma began dissipating, but the disaster left millions without electricity in Florida and Georgia.
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The English were defeated at the Battle of Stirling Bridge.
President George Washington appointed Alexander Hamilton as the first Secretary of the US Treasury.
The Destruction of Santiago occurred when the Spanish conquistadors and the Mapuche-Picunche tribes had a confrontation.
NASA revealed that water vapor was discovered in the atmosphere of an Earth-size planet, the exoplanet K2-18b.
The science-fiction movie 'The Martian,' starring Matt Damon, premiered in Toronto, Canada.
