The English navy defeated the Spanish Armada at the Battle of Gravelines.
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A screening test of Walt Disney's ''Steamboat Willie” occurred featuring Mickey Mouse.
Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France for the third time in a row.
Renegades of the Abbasid Caliphate captured Thessalonica, which is modern-day Thessaloniki, Greece.
Pope Paul VI declared the prohibition of birth control.
David Berkowitz, otherwise known as the Son of Sam serial killer, shot his first victims.
