Ireland ended its ban on divorce.
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George Hancock, who invented softball, played the first match in Chicago.
The very first Chick-fil-A restaurant opened in Atlanta's Greenbriar Mall.
A four-day ceasefire in Gaza between HAMAS and Israeli forces began.
STS 44 Atlantis 10 was launched into space.
Astronomers Jeremiah Horrocks and William Crabtree recorded the first known observation of a transit of Venus across the sun.
