The US Commerce Department decided that hurricane names would no longer be only female.
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The first-ever cricket County Championship started, finishing with Yorkshire beating Gloucestershire.
The Soviet Union's Luna 5 uncrewed spacecraft crash-landed on the Moon.
The first-ever quadraphonic concert was held.
The first confirmed trip to the North Pole was carried out by the Norge, a semi-rigid Italian-built airship.
The first university in the New World, the National University of San Marcos, was founded in Lima, Peru.
