Abel Tasman became the first European to discover Tasmania and named it Van Diemen’s Land.
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Charles Darwin published his revolutionary work, On the Origin of Species.
Taylor Swift won six awards at the American Music Awards, including Artist of the Year and Artist of the Decade.
Photographer Alfred Stieglitz opened The Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession in Manhattan, New York.
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.
