Korean Air Flight 801 crashed while approaching Guam airport, killing 229 of the 254 people aboard.
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Flammable vapor caught fire at the Chevron Refinery in Richmond, California.
Mount Tongariro in New Zealand erupted for the first time in 115 years.
NASA's Curiosity rover landed on Mars' Aeolis Palus plain.
The United States of America dropped its first-ever atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan.
A team of NASA scientists declared that the Martian ALH 84001 meteorite might contain traces of alien life.
