Ferrari secured its first Grand Prix victory at the 1951 British Grand Prix.
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Batman's 'The Dark Knight' premiered in London.
A patent was granted to Robert Goddard for a liquid-filled rocket.
Alpinists reached the summit of Matterhorn for the first time.
President of France, Jacques Chirac narrowly escaped an assassination during the Bastille Day celebration.
NASA's New Horizons space probe completed the first flyby of Pluto in the history of human spaceflight.
