Disney bought Capital Cities, ABC, and ESPN for $19 billion.
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Michael Phelps broke the world record for the most medals won at the Olympics.
The satirical book 'Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect' by Robert Burns was published.
Nobleman John Komnenos the Fat attempted to steal the imperial throne from Alexios III Angelos.
The Royal Navy began rationing rum.
NASA's Lunar Prospector spacecraft was deliberately crashed into the Moon’s south pole.
