A solar flare from the sun created a geomagnetic storm, which caused Toronto’s stock market to halt.
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NASA launched its Active Magnetospheric Particle Tracer Explorers mission (AMPTE) from the Cape Canaveral launch pad.
Julian Assange, who founded WikiLeaks, was given political asylum by Ecuador.
The first issue of Sports Illustrated magazine is published.
Edwin Prescott was awarded a patent for the vertical loop Roller Coaster.
Queen Victoria of Britain sent the first-ever transatlantic telegraph to US President James Buchanan.
