George Hancock, who invented softball, played the first match in Chicago.
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From this day until February 10, 1435, London's Thames river completely froze.
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.
STS 44 Atlantis 10 was launched into space.
Abel Tasman became the first European to discover Tasmania and named it Van Diemen's Land.
Charles Darwin published his revolutionary work, On the Origin of Species.
