Taylor Swift won six awards at the American Music Awards, including Artist of the Year and Artist of the Decade.
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Astronomers Jeremiah Horrocks and William Crabtree recorded the first known observation of a transit of Venus across the sun.
The very first Chick-fil-A restaurant opened in Atlanta's Greenbriar Mall.
A party boat on Lake Victoria in Uganda capsized and killed 29 people.
Photographer Alfred Stieglitz opened The Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession in Manhattan, New York.
D.B. Cooper hijacked a Boeing 727 and extorted a ransom of $200,000 before parachuting out of the plane with the money and was never seen again.