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1859: Charles Darwin's groundbreaking work 'On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection' was published in England and sold out immediately

1963: Jack Ruby shot and mortally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald, President Kennedy's accused assassin, in a scene captured on live television

1971: A hijacker known as D.B. Cooper parachuted from Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305 over Washington State with $200,000 in ransom money and was never found

1642: Dutch explorer Abel Tasman became the first European to sight Tasmania (which he named Van Diemen's Land) on the west coast north of Macquarie Harbour

1969: Apollo 12 spacecraft splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean near American Samoa, completing the second mission where humans landed on the Moon

1877: Thomas Edison announced his invention of the phonograph, and Anna Sewell's novel 'Black Beauty' was published, becoming a classic of children's literature

1932: The FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory officially opened in Washington, D.C., with one employee and basic equipment including a microscope and ultraviolet light

2012: A fire at the Tazreen Fashions garment factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, killed at least 112 workers, highlighting dangerous working conditions in the garment industry

2016: Colombia and FARC signed a revised peace deal, ending the country's 50-year civil war that had claimed over 220,000 lives

1874: Joseph Farwell Glidden was granted a patent for barbed wire, an invention that would transform farming and ranching across the American West