Barbra Streisand released her single “The Way We Were.”
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Zhai Zhigang became the first person from China to perform a spacewalk while on the Shenzhou 7 mission.
New Zealand singer Lorde released her debut album 'Pure Heroine.'
John Adams was selected to negotiate a peace treaty of commerce with Great Britain following the Revolutionary war.
Locomotion No. 1 became the first passenger-carrying steam-powered locomotive and was driven by George and Stephenson.
The latter of two total lunar eclipses was seen from the Americas.