Michael Phelps won the 100-meter butterfly swim in a record 50:58 at the Beijing Olympic finals.
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The first issue of Sports Illustrated magazine is published.
Georgian heavyweight-lifting champion Lasha Talakhadze smashed a world record by lifting an incredible 473 kg.
NASA launched its Active Magnetospheric Particle Tracer Explorers mission (AMPTE) from the Cape Canaveral launch pad.
More than 1,200 tin homes were destroyed after a fire broke out in the Chalantika slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
The world's first colored cartoon with synchronized sound was released.
