A Faucett Perú 727 airliner disappeared without a trace off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada.
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The English were defeated at the Battle of Stirling Bridge.
Nahalal, the first moshav in modern-day Israel, was settled.
Florence Chadwick became the first female to swim across the English Channel and back.
US Founding Father, Benjamin Franklin, wrote, 'There never was a good war or a bad peace,' in a letter to Josiah Quincy.
Janet Parker became the last person to die of smallpox in Birmingham, United Kingdom.