Michael Phelps won the 100-meter butterfly swim in a record 50:58 at the Beijing Olympic finals.
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More than 1,200 tin homes were destroyed after a fire broke out in the Chalantika slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Edwin Prescott was awarded a patent for the vertical loop Roller Coaster.
NASA launched its Active Magnetospheric Particle Tracer Explorers mission (AMPTE) from the Cape Canaveral launch pad.
Nikephoros II Phokas was crowned emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
The world's first colored cartoon with synchronized sound was released.
