NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft entered interstellar space, becoming the first artificial object to do so.
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Nintendo released the first-person shooter, GoldenEye 007, for the Nintendo 64.
Captain James Cook set sail on his first voyage from Plymouth, heading for the Pacific Ocean.
Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, the conquistador, founded Havana on the southern part of the island.
A Japanese scientist, Shibasaburo Kitasato, isolated the bacterium of the Bubonic Plague.
Belarus declared its independence from the Soviet Union.
