The United States and Great Britain signed the Treaty of Paris, ending the Revolutionary war.
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The Viking 2 became the second spacecraft to land on Mars.
The online auction website eBay was founded by Pierre Omidyar.
A record-breaking haircut saved a sheep that had not been sheared in over five years in Canberra, Australia.
Sir Malcolm Campbell broke the world record speed exceeding 300 mph on the Bonneville Flats, Utah, US.
Holocaust diarist Anne Frank was transported to Auschwitz, along with over a thousand other Jewish prisoners.