England was defeated by South Africa, who became top of the world Test cricket rank.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that measles cases were at an all-time record high, with 41,000 in the first half of the year alone.
President Andrew Johnson declared that the American civil war was over.
The ''LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin” returned to Lakehurst, New Jersey, after being the first airship to circumference the earth in one journey.
Mother Teresa contracted malaria and spent one week in hospital in New Delhi, India.
NASA launched the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars.
