Abel Tasman became the first European to discover Tasmania and named it Van Diemen’s Land.
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The very first Chick-fil-A restaurant opened in Atlanta's Greenbriar Mall.
Astronomers Jeremiah Horrocks and William Crabtree recorded the first known observation of a transit of Venus across the sun.
Ireland ended its ban on divorce.
George Hancock, who invented softball, played the first match in Chicago.
An international research team published their discovery of 1,500 new viruses that were in invertebrates in Australia and China.
