The Women’s International Soccer team played at a world record altitude of 18,999 ft at Kilimanjaro.
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Explorer John Cabot claimed Canada for England, thinking he was in Asia when he was actually in Nova Scotia.
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse premiered in Los Angeles.
A mysterious outbreak of dancing plague or choreomania occurred in the German city of Aachen.
The USA's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration launched the NOAA-17 satellite.
The US supreme court officially overturned women's constitutional right to abortion.
