Violet Stewart Piercy, a long-distance runner from England, set the first recorded marathon win for women at 3:40:22.
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The city planning simulation game SimCity was released for the Apple Macintosh.
The last Prince of Wales, Dafydd ap Gruffudd, was the first person recorded to have been hanged, drawn, and quartered.
The Kingdom of Iraq won its independence from the United Kingdom.
WERD, the first African-American-owned radio station in the US, made its first broadcast.
Singers Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson released their song 'Say Say Say.'
