Cosmonauts Titov and Strekalov narrowly escaped the Soyuz T-10 spacecraft explosion.
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The Beatles released Abbey Road, the last album they recorded before breaking up.
Ed Whitlock became the world's first person over the age of 70 to run a marathon in under 3 hours.
The iconic Hollywoodland sign was changed to just Hollywood as we know it today.
Sir Frances Drake completed his famous circumnavigation of the world when he sailed into Plymouth aboard the Golden Hind.
The famous Parthenon building in Athens, Greece, was damaged due to an attack by the Venetian army attempting to remove Turks who turned the building into a mosque.
