The first-ever cricket County Championship started, finishing with Yorkshire beating Gloucestershire.
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The first university in the New World, the National University of San Marcos, was founded in Lima, Peru.
Juan María Fernández y Krohn tried to assassinate Pope John Paul II with a bayonet.
One hundred and forty thousand miners went on strike in Pennsylvania.
The first-ever quadraphonic concert was held.
Revolutionary War soldiers formed the Society of St. Tammany.
