The category 5 hurricane Irma began dissipating, but the disaster left millions without electricity in Florida and Georgia.
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Florence Chadwick became the first female to swim across the English Channel and back.
The science-fiction movie 'The Martian,' starring Matt Damon, premiered in Toronto, Canada.
A Faucett Perú 727 airliner disappeared without a trace off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada.
NASA revealed that water vapor was discovered in the atmosphere of an Earth-size planet, the exoplanet K2-18b.
US Founding Father, Benjamin Franklin, wrote, 'There never was a good war or a bad peace,' in a letter to Josiah Quincy.
