Adi Dassler founded Adidas with a vision to improve athletic performance.
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The United States Exploring Expedition set sail.
Major Gordon Laing became the first non-Muslim to enter Timbuktu.
French astronomer Pierre Janssen first recorded evidence of helium, a then-unknown element.
A funeral was held in Iceland for the loss of the Okjökull glacier.
The world's oldest cheese dating back 3,200 years, was discovered in an Ancient Egyptian tomb near Cairo.
