Zayn Malik announced that he would be leaving the boyband One Direction.
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The Slave Trade Act was passed in the British Parliament.
The first kidney transplant between two persons with HIV occurred in Boston, Massachusetts, US.
The world's first fully-functional space shuttle, Columbia, was delivered to the JFK Space Center.
The world's largest banana split was made in Innisfail, Australia.
Frederick Langenheim took the first photo of a solar eclipse.