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.
One hundred and forty thousand miners went on strike in Pennsylvania.
Juan María Fernández y Krohn tried to assassinate Pope John Paul II with a bayonet.
The United States and Canada formed NORAD – the North American Air Defense Command.
The US Commerce Department decided that hurricane names would no longer be only female.
