The US tested the TX-17 thermonuclear bomb for the first time in Bikini Atoll of the Marshall Islands.
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Pope John Paul II proclaimed the day as the first-ever World Youth Day.
Baltimore's iconic Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed after being struck by a cargo ship.
Sir Henry Thompson conducted the UK's first cremation on the corpse of Mrs. Jeannette C. Pickersgill.
East Pakistan declared its independence from Pakistan, forming Bangladesh.
The first edition of the Book of Mormon was published in Palmyra, New York.
