Ireland ended its ban on divorce.
Source
Charles Darwin published his revolutionary work, On the Origin of Species.
A catastrophic landslide on Mont Granier destroyed five villages.
D.B. Cooper hijacked a Boeing 727 and extorted a ransom of $200,000 before parachuting out of the plane with the money and was never seen again.
George Hancock, who invented softball, played the first match in Chicago.
Abel Tasman became the first European to discover Tasmania and named it Van Diemen's Land.
