The French ship named Aurore transported the first African slaves from Senegambia, West Africa, to Louisiana, US.
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Betty White received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Game Show Host.
The US started plans to construct its first nuclear battlefield weapon.
Alexey Pajitnov shared his first playable version of Tetris with his colleagues.
The American baseball team New York Yankees, played their 13,000th game.
The Soviet Union's ill-fated Soyuz 11 mission was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
