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Virginia Dare became the first English child born in the Americas, in the Roanoke Colony (present-day North Carolina). Her birth was a landmark for English colonization, though the fate of the "Lost Colony" remains a historical mystery.
The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, guaranteeing American women the right to vote. This marked a pivotal victory for the women's suffrage movement after decades of activism.
French astronomer Pierre Janssen observed a bright yellow spectral line in the sun's atmosphere during a solar eclipse in India. This line represented a new element, later named helium, the first to be discovered in space before being found on Earth.
The Beatles performed a historic concert at Shea Stadium in New York before a crowd of over 55,000 fans. It was a landmark event in pop culture, setting records for attendance and revenue and cementing the era of stadium rock concerts.
The Soviet Union's Luna 24 spacecraft landed on the Moon, successfully drilled into the surface, and returned lunar soil samples to Earth. It was the last lunar sample-return mission of the 20th century and the final mission of the Soviet Luna program.