Australian swimmer Kyle Chalmers won the 100-meter freestyle gold medal in the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
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Ecuador declared independence from Spain.
Floods swept through India, killing over two hundred people and displacing one million.
After a 15-month-long journey from earth, NASA's Magellan went into orbit around Venus and began to map the planet.
Canon Inc. was established in Tokyo, Japan.
Missouri entered the United States Union and became the 24th state.
