After a 15-month-long journey from earth, NASA’s Magellan went into orbit around Venus and began to map the planet.
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Monsanto became liable to pay out $289 million in damages to a groundsman who got terminal cancer from its 'Roundup' weed killer.
Protesting and riots began in Missouri following the death of African American man, Michael Brown.
The Society for American Baseball Research was founded in Cooperstown, New York.
Floods swept through India, killing over two hundred people and displacing one million.
Ecuador declared independence from Spain.
