Benjamin Franklin sailed from England back to the US to work for a Quaker merchant in Philadelphia.
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Eileen Collins became the first female space shuttle commander with the launch of mission STS-93.
Forty-three people were killed in the Detroit Riots, one of the worst riots in US history.
Pete Everest became the fastest man in the world.
British boyband One Direction was formed during X-Factor UK.
Italian Artist Caravaggio signed his first commission contract to paint the Contarelli Chapel in the French church in Rome.
