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- 1836 - The HMS Beagle, carrying Charles Darwin on its second voyage, arrived at Mauritius.
- 1906 - Gustava Kahler, née Aigner was born in Salzburg, Austria.
- 2015 - Federico Fanti and others reconstructed the environment and taphonomic history of the Tataouinea type specimen, which they concluded to be the descendant of a rapid adaptive radiation of diplodocoids that survived the end-Jurassic extinction in South America.