The first printed edition of the Zohar (Jewish kabbalah) was published.
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Mount Asama erupted in Japan, killing around 1,400 people.
NASA launched the Phoenix spaceship from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, US.
Californian Judge Vaughn Walker overturned the same-sex marriage ban.
Three missing members of the Congress of Racial Equality were found partially buried near a dam in Philadelphia, Mississippi.
French inventor Franky Zapata crossed the English Channel on a hoverboard.