1864 - Battle of Mobile Bay won by the Union Navy, led by Rear Admiral David Farragut with the cry "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"
1975 - Stevie Wonder signs a 7-year, 7-album contract with a $13 million advance with Motown Records
1994 - British rocker Billy Idol admitted to the hospital after drug overdose in Los Angeles, California
2005 - Discovery of Skull 5, the earliest complete Homo erectus skull aged 1.8 million years, at Dmanisi, Georgia, by archaeologist David Lordkipanidze, site of the first known hominins to leave Africa
2024 - British graffiti artist Banksy begins a series of animal artworks around London with a goat near Kew Bridge

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