The category 5 hurricane Irma began dissipating, but the disaster left millions without electricity in Florida and Georgia.
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US Founding Father, Benjamin Franklin, wrote, 'There never was a good war or a bad peace,' in a letter to Josiah Quincy.
A Faucett Perú 727 airliner disappeared without a trace off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada.
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 video game console Atari 2600 was released.
