The RMS Titanic was launched from Belfast, where it was also constructed.
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Rihanna released her third studio album titled 'Good Girl Gone Bad.'
The New Orleans Minting facility closed.
English civil servant Samuel Pepys recorded his last diary entry.
Ramesses II, also known as Ramesses the Great, became the third pharaoh of the 19th Dynasty of Egypt.
20th Century Fox was founded after a merger of Fox Film Corporation and Twentieth Century Pictures.
