George Hancock, who invented softball, played the first match in Chicago.
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D.B. Cooper hijacked a Boeing 727 and extorted a ransom of $200,000 before parachuting out of the plane with the money and was never seen again.
Astronomers Jeremiah Horrocks and William Crabtree recorded the first known observation of a transit of Venus across the sun.
Abel Tasman became the first European to discover Tasmania and named it Van Diemen's Land.
Photographer Alfred Stieglitz opened The Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession in Manhattan, New York.
From this day until February 10, 1435, London's Thames river completely froze.
