The “Dodgers” baseball team became the first major league to bring in 3 million fans for the season.
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The Soviet Union launched Zond 5, the first spacecraft to successfully circle the moon and return to earth.
Aboard the HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin discovered the Galapagos Islands.
The 2000 Summer Olympic Games opened in Sydney, Australia.
Michael Stewart, a victim of police brutality, was beaten and arrested in New York.
Tanks were used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme, during World War I.
