Abel Tasman became the first European to discover Tasmania and named it Van Diemen’s Land.
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George Hancock, who invented softball, played the first match in Chicago.
Psy's 'Gangnam Style' music video became the most viewed video on YouTube, passing 800 million views.
Astronomers Jeremiah Horrocks and William Crabtree recorded the first known observation of a transit of Venus across the sun.
D.B. Cooper hijacked a Boeing 727 and extorted a ransom of $200,000 before parachuting out of the plane with the money and was never seen again.
An international research team published their discovery of 1,500 new viruses that were in invertebrates in Australia and China.
