Nik Wallenda became the first person to walk over the Masaya Volcano in Nicaragua.
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World tennis champion Martina Navratilova won her 74th match streak.
The first People's Choice Awards aired on CBS.
The Soviet Union's Vega 1 Space Probe began sending back images of Halley's Comet.
John Lennon made a controversial statement saying that the Beatles were 'more popular than Jesus.'
The silent horror movie ''Nosferatu" was released in Berlin, making it the first-ever vampire movie.