The “Dodgers” baseball team became the first major league to bring in 3 million fans for the season.
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Spanish Catholic priest Joseph Calasanz started the first public and free school in Europe.
Parts of Central and Eastern Europe were catastrophically flooded as they were struck by Storm Boris.
The 2000 Summer Olympic Games opened in Sydney, Australia.
Tanks were used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme, during World War I.
The psychological crime thriller movie 'Se7en,' starring Morgan Freeman, premiered in New York.
