Australian swimmer Kyle Chalmers won the 100-meter freestyle gold medal in the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
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The Society for American Baseball Research was founded in Cooperstown, New York.
The 14th IAAF World Championships opened in Moscow, Russia.
Floods swept through India, killing over two hundred people and displacing one million.
A group invaded the Tuileries Palace, where Louis XVI stayed during the French revolution.
A century-old fruit cake was discovered in Antarctica that was ''almost edible.”
