The first issue of “The New Yorker” was published.
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Saint Francis Xavier Church in Baltimore, Maryland, became the first church exclusively for blacks in the US.
The USSR's uncrewed Luna 20 lunar lander successfully touched down on the surface of the Moon.
Russia declared the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic as independent states.
The first sewing machine was patented in the US.
US President Richard Nixon met with Chinese leader Mao Zedong in Beijing to finalize a peace deal between their two countries.
