A sea swimmer in his mid-twenties was bitten and killed by a shark near Newcomb Hollow Beach, Massachusetts, US.
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The UK's prime minister Boris Johnson compared himself to The Hulk in his efforts to steer the country out of the European Union.
The Invasion of the Cape Colony came to an end. The Dutch Cape Colony surrendered to the British after three months of battling.
Aboard the HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin discovered the Galapagos Islands.
The ''Dodgers” baseball team became the first major league to bring in 3 million fans for the season.
Parts of Central and Eastern Europe were catastrophically flooded as they were struck by Storm Boris.
