Thieves stole up to 68 Olympic artifacts from a museum in Greece.
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Julius Wolff supplied the first canned sardines from Maine, USA.
Voyager 1 passed Pioneer 10 to become the most distant human-made object in space.
The Phantom, the world's first superhero, appeared in the self-titled comic strip by Lee Falk.
Polish mountaineers Krzysztof Wielicki and Leszek Cichy became the first to ascend Mt. Everest in winter.
The Republic of Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia.
