The “Dodgers” baseball team became the first major league to bring in 3 million fans for the season.
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A sea swimmer in his mid-twenties was bitten and killed by a shark near Newcomb Hollow Beach, Massachusetts, US.
The Invasion of the Cape Colony came to an end. The Dutch Cape Colony surrendered to the British after three months of battling.
Ren Zhengfei founded Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. in China.
Tanks were used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme, during World War I.
The Soviet Union launched Zond 5, the first spacecraft to successfully circle the moon and return to earth.
