The survival movie “Into the Wild,” starring Emile Hirsch, premiered at the Rome Film Festival.
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After 14 years in space, NASA's Galileo spacecraft was intentionally destroyed in Jupiter's atmosphere.
Rockband Green Day released their seventh album, 'American Idiot.'
In the Second Opium War, an Anglo-French force defeated Chinese troops at the Battle of Palikao.
A Jellyfish was discovered and became the first-known animal that sleeps and doesn’t have a brain.
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch stepped down as the chair of Fox and News Corp at the age of 92, choosing to pass the reins to his son, Lachlan.