32-year-old Erik Weihenmayer from Boulder, Colorado, became the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
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Jay Leno became the permanent host of ''The Tonight Show."
The original Star Wars film (Episode IV – A New Hope), directed by George Lucas, was first released.
Oscar Wilde was sentenced to two years of hard labor for committing gross acts of indecency with another male person.
The FDA gave Elon Musk the go-ahead to trial his Neuralink brain implants on humans.
SpaceX's Dragon became the first commercial spacecraft to dock at the International Space Station.