Henri Desgrange made the world’s first world record for a bicycle, reaching a speed of 21.95 miles per hour.
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Minnesota became the 32nd state to join the United States of America.
The son of the ousted dictator, Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr., won the Philippine presidential election by a landslide.
NASA's Atlantis Space Shuttle launched on the final mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical 'Cats,' based on poetry by T. S. Eliot, first premiered in the West End, London.
In Montreal, Canada, a fire broke out after an English merchant put fireplace ashes in his attic for soap-making – not knowing that the cinders were still hot.
