The James Bond movie “Casino Royale,” with Daniel Craig as Bond, premiered in London.
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Ruby Bridges became the first African American girl to take classes at an all-white school in Louisiana.
Louis Timothee became America's first paid librarian.
NASA's Mariner 9 became the first spacecraft to orbit another planet when it entered Mars' orbit.
The musical 'Chicago' opened at Richard Rodgers Theater in New York City.
A 19-mile crater was found under the Greenland Glacier.