NASA’s Discovery Space Shuttle launched from Florida on its 19th mission, STS-64.
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California became the 31st state to join the United States of America.
Congress changed the official name from United Colonies to the United States of America.
American astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard discovered Jupiter's fifth moon.
The New England Confederation declared war on the Wampanoag Indians.
Grace Hopper fell victim to the first-ever computer bug after removing a moth from her Harvard Mark II computer.
