Voyager 1 passed Pioneer 10 to become the most distant human-made object in space.
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Thieves stole up to 68 Olympic artifacts from a museum in Greece.
Friends Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan recorded 'Girl From The North Country' at CBS Studios.
A stampede at a soccer match killed forty-nine people in Cairo, Egypt.
The Phantom, the world's first superhero, appeared in the self-titled comic strip by Lee Falk.
Oregon became the first US state to pass a minimum wage law.