Finnish long-distance runner Taisto Mäki broke the 10,000-meter world record in 29:52:06.
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Miss America crowned Vanessa Williams, the first black winner, in New York City.
NASA unveiled its first space shuttle, the Space Shuttle Enterprise.
Linus Torvalds released the first version of the Linux operating system kernel for free on the Internet.
During the Senate climate crisis task force, climate change activity Greta Thunberg said, 'You're not trying hard enough. Sorry.'
The New York Stock Exchange reopened for trading after the September 11 attacks.
