George Hancock, who invented softball, played the first match in Chicago.
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Photographer Alfred Stieglitz opened The Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession in Manhattan, New York.
A catastrophic landslide on Mont Granier destroyed five villages.
Abel Tasman became the first European to discover Tasmania and named it Van Diemen's Land.
Taylor Swift won six awards at the American Music Awards, including Artist of the Year and Artist of the Decade.
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.
