British boyband One Direction was formed during X-Factor UK.
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The first US woman in space, Sally Ride, died from pancreatic cancer at the age of 61.
Inventor William Austin Burt patented the typographer, also known as the typewriter in the US.
Benjamin Franklin sailed from England back to the US to work for a Quaker merchant in Philadelphia.
Forty-three people were killed in the Detroit Riots, one of the worst riots in US history.
Italian Artist Caravaggio signed his first commission contract to paint the Contarelli Chapel in the French church in Rome.
