Paul Rudd was named People Magazine’s 2021 Sexiest Man Alive.
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The Mayflower, filled with Puritan Pilgrims, spotted land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
The European Space Agency launched the Venus Express, the first European spacecraft to reach Venus.
King Edward VII was gifted with The Cullinan Diamond (the world's largest diamond) on his 60th birthday.
The Berlin Wall began to fall.
Theodore Roosevelt became the first US president to visit another country while in office, visiting Puerto Rico and Panama.
