The 9/11 victim compensation fund was extended indefinitely by the US Senate.
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Forty-three people were killed in the Detroit Riots, one of the worst riots in US history.
Benjamin Franklin sailed from England back to the US to work for a Quaker merchant in Philadelphia.
Italian Artist Caravaggio signed his first commission contract to paint the Contarelli Chapel in the French church in Rome.
Eileen Collins became the first female space shuttle commander with the launch of mission STS-93.
The first US woman in space, Sally Ride, died from pancreatic cancer at the age of 61.
