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.
A four-day ceasefire in Gaza between HAMAS and Israeli forces began.
Charles Darwin published his revolutionary work, On the Origin of Species.
An international research team published their discovery of 1,500 new viruses that were in invertebrates in Australia and China.
A party boat on Lake Victoria in Uganda capsized and killed 29 people.
