A sea swimmer in his mid-twenties was bitten and killed by a shark near Newcomb Hollow Beach, Massachusetts, US.
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Aboard the HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin discovered the Galapagos Islands.
The Invasion of the Cape Colony came to an end. The Dutch Cape Colony surrendered to the British after three months of battling.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin registered the domain name google.com.
Parts of Central and Eastern Europe were catastrophically flooded as they were struck by Storm Boris.
The psychological crime thriller movie 'Se7en,' starring Morgan Freeman, premiered in New York.
