The Baltimore Afro-American newspaper was published for the first time.
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After parading around New York City, the Apollo 11 crew was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
John Smith, famous for setting up the first permanent English colony in the New World, told the first stories about Jamestown.
Inventor William Gray received a patent for creating the telephone that uses coins to operate it.
The Arica earthquake occurred in Peru and Ecuador.
Black soldiers were blamed for raiding a bar in Brownsville, Texas, US.
