The Times of India was founded, making it the largest English-language newspaper in the world.
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The Soviet Union sent a dog into space aboard the spacecraft Sputnik II.
Louis Chevrolet incorporated the Chevrolet Motor Car Company.
The One World Trade Center opened on the original World Trade Center site.
NASA launched the last space probe in the Mariner Program, Mariner 10.
Political activist and French playwright Olympe de Gouges was guillotined.
