Peggy Whitson set a NASA record for spending the most cumulative days living and working in space at 665 days.
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Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt named her son Ptolemy XV Caesar a co-ruler of Egypt.
The Wars of Castro ended when Pope Innocent X and his forces destroyed the Italian city of Castro.
Machine guns were used for the first time in a battle in Omdurman, Sudan, Africa.
The United States announced its recognition of Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania's independence as individual countries after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The Great Fire of London began.
