Ferrari secured its first Grand Prix victory at the 1951 British Grand Prix.
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President of France, Jacques Chirac narrowly escaped an assassination during the Bastille Day celebration.
Batman's 'The Dark Knight' premiered in London.
Lynne and William Jolitz released the Unix-like operating system 386BSD.
A patent was granted to Robert Goddard for a liquid-filled rocket.
NASA's New Horizons space probe completed the first flyby of Pluto in the history of human spaceflight.
