Metallica released their single “Enter Sandman.”
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17-year-old Neville Ebbin was riding his electric cycle down a stretch of road in Bermuda when he was hit and killed by a taxi driver named Willard Manders.
Host nation Uruguay defeated Argentina 4-2 in Montevideo to win the first FIFA World Cup.
England won the FIFA World Cup Final in London against Germany with a score of 4-2.
28-year-old chemist Eugène Schueller founded a beauty company, which would later be named L'Oreal.
The USS Indianapolis vessel was torpedoed and sunk.