The 9/11 victim compensation fund was extended indefinitely by the US Senate.
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Italian Artist Caravaggio signed his first commission contract to paint the Contarelli Chapel in the French church in Rome.
The first lighthouse in America was given the green light to be built at Little Brewster Island, Massachusetts.
Benjamin Franklin sailed from England back to the US to work for a Quaker merchant in Philadelphia.
Forty-three people were killed in the Detroit Riots, one of the worst riots in US history.
Pete Everest became the fastest man in the world.
