After parading around New York City, the Apollo 11 crew was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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Inventor William Gray received a patent for creating the telephone that uses coins to operate it.
South Park premiered on Comedy Central, with the first episode titled 'Cartman Gets an Anal Probe.'
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.
The Mayan calendar started being used.
