George Hancock, who invented softball, played the first match in Chicago.
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D.B. Cooper hijacked a Boeing 727 and extorted a ransom of $200,000 before parachuting out of the plane with the money and was never seen again.
The very first Chick-fil-A restaurant opened in Atlanta's Greenbriar Mall.
STS 44 Atlantis 10 was launched into space.
Psy's 'Gangnam Style' music video became the most viewed video on YouTube, passing 800 million views.
Photographer Alfred Stieglitz opened The Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession in Manhattan, New York.
