The 2000 Summer Olympic Games opened in Sydney, Australia.
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Tanks were used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme, during World War I.
Ren Zhengfei founded Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. in China.
The ''Dodgers” baseball team became the first major league to bring in 3 million fans for the season.
A sea swimmer in his mid-twenties was bitten and killed by a shark near Newcomb Hollow Beach, Massachusetts, US.
Spanish Catholic priest Joseph Calasanz started the first public and free school in Europe.
