The American baseball team New York Yankees, played their 13,000th game.
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Henry W. Seely patented the electric iron in the US.
Founder George Williams established the YMCA alongside ten young Christian men.
The Soviet Union's ill-fated Soyuz 11 mission was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
The US celebrated the opening of its very first drive-in cinema.
Normandy landings started in France during WWII.