Founder George Williams established the YMCA alongside ten young Christian men.
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The American baseball team New York Yankees, played their 13,000th game.
Xi'an, China, introduced a pedestrian lane for people who walk while looking at their phones.
Taxes were raised in the US with the implementation of the Revenue Act.
Henry W. Seely patented the electric iron in the US.
The Soviet Union's ill-fated Soyuz 11 mission was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.