Ireland ended its ban on divorce.
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From this day until February 10, 1435, London's Thames river completely froze.
An international research team published their discovery of 1,500 new viruses that were in invertebrates in Australia and China.
A party boat on Lake Victoria in Uganda capsized and killed 29 people.
Abel Tasman became the first European to discover Tasmania and named it Van Diemen's Land.
STS 44 Atlantis 10 was launched into space.
