Adi Dassler founded Adidas with a vision to improve athletic performance.
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Major Gordon Laing became the first non-Muslim to enter Timbuktu.
President Woodrow Wilson issued a Proclamation of Neutrality.
The USS Indianapolis warship, which sank during World War II, was discovered in the Pacific Ocean 3.4 miles below the surface.
A great ball of fire was witnessed over the east coast of Great Britain.
French astronomer Pierre Janssen first recorded evidence of helium, a then-unknown element.