380 Theodosius I makes his adventus, or first formal entry, into Constantinople 1639 1st observation of transit of Venus by Jeremiah Horrocks and William Crabtree - helped establish size of the Solar System 1642 Dutch explorer Abel Tasman discovers Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) 1859 English naturalist Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species" radically changing the view of evolution and laying the foundation for evolutionary biology 1950 UN troops begin an assault intending to end Korean War by Christmas 1954 France sends 20,000 soldiers to Algeria 1974 Most complete early human skeleton (Lucy, Australopithecus) discovered by Donald Johanson, Maurice Taieb, Yves Coppens and Tim White in the Middle Awash of Ethiopia's Afar Depression | 
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