British ship Eliza Frances discovered the island of Jarvis in the South Pacific Ocean.
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A 108-year-old message in a bottle washed up on a beach in Amrum, Germany.
John Hampton patented the Venetian blind.
The first female students were enrolled at a University in Japan.
Leonardo da Vinci's famous Mona Lisa painting was stolen from the Louvre, Paris, by Vincenzo Perugia.
NASA lost contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft.
