After parading around New York City, the Apollo 11 crew was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani became the world’s first woman to win the Fields Medal, the most prestigious award in mathematics.
Berlin's city became entirely divided in two, with all borders sealed between the east and west.
John Smith, famous for setting up the first permanent English colony in the New World, told the first stories about Jamestown.
Black soldiers were blamed for raiding a bar in Brownsville, Texas, US.
A three-year-old boy from Dublin became the world's youngest heart and lung transplant patient.
