Canon Inc. was established in Tokyo, Japan.
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Monsanto became liable to pay out $289 million in damages to a groundsman who got terminal cancer from its 'Roundup' weed killer.
The Society for American Baseball Research was founded in Cooperstown, New York.
Portuguese explorer Diogo Dias became the first European to set foot on Madagascar.
Floods swept through India, killing over two hundred people and displacing one million.
Protesting and riots began in Missouri following the death of African American man, Michael Brown.
