The world’s richest tennis player, Martina Navratilova, became the first to make $10 million.
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The tone poem Don Quixote by Richard Strauss premiered in Cologne, Germany.
The first official rock festival took place in the Soviet Union.
Queen Anne became Queen of England after King William III died.
Philips demonstrated the compact disc publicly for the first time.
The United States military banned smoking in the workplace.