NASA lost contact with the Mars Observer spacecraft.
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Tiger Woods won the 82nd PGA Championship, making it his second win in a row.
Leonardo da Vinci's famous Mona Lisa painting was stolen from the Louvre, Paris, by Vincenzo Perugia.
A 108-year-old message in a bottle washed up on a beach in Amrum, Germany.
John Hampton patented the Venetian blind.
A solar eclipse occurred, which started Tycho Brahe's interest in the world of astronomy.
