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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos goes into space in first unpiloted suborbital flight with all-civilian crew, aboard rocket developed by his company Blue Origin.

Cristiano Ronaldo becomes first man to score 50 goals in Serie A, La Liga and the Premier League with a double in Juventus’ 2-1 win over Lazio.

Canada becomes the fourth country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage, after the bill C-38 receives its Royal Assent.

US Viking 1 lands on Mars at Chryse Planitia, 1st Martian landing.

Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. became the first men to walk on the moon.

Iron Butterfly’s “In-a-gadda-da-vida” becomes 1st heavy metal song to hit charts, it comes in at #117.

The first International Special Olympics Summer Games are held at Soldier Field in Chicago, Ill, with about 1,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities.

The Ford Motor Company ships its first car.

British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada.

Laying of first stone of the Victoria Railway Bridge from Montreal to the south shore of the St. Lawrence.

Samuel de Champlain starts building Fort St. Louis on Cap Diamant; first fort built on the cliff at Quebec.

World Formula 1 drivers champion Lewis Hamilton wins a record 8th Hungarian Grand Prix in Budapest to equal Michael Schumacher’s record of wins at a single circuit (French GP).

Airbus Beluga XL, painted to look like the whale, makes its first flight, landing in Toulouse-Blagnac, France.

“Depacito” by Luis Fonsi ft. Daddy Yankee becomes the most streamed song ever, played 4.6 billion times.

Selena Gomez releases her debut solo studio album “Stars Dance”.

TV drama “Mad Men” debuts starring Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss and Vincent Kartheiser on cable network AMC.

26th Olympic Games open in Atlanta, Georgia.

Cincinnati Red Pete Rose is sentence to 5 months for tax evasion.

Canada joins the USA and other nations in protesting the invasion of Afganistan, by boycotting the 22nd Olympiad, opening today in Moscow; 81 other nations and 5,326 competitors attend; until August 3.

XV Summer Olympic Games open in Helsinki, Finland.

Marilyn Monroe acted in her first screen test.

Tom and Jerry first appear under their own names in cartoon “The Midnight Snack” by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera.

Start of Spanish flu epidemic that will kill over 30,000 people in Canada.

Maurice Garin wins the first Tour de France.

Louis Riel speaks at a meeting of Metis residents about rights, setting in motion the events now referred to as the Red River Rebellion.

World Formula 1 drivers champion Lewis Hamilton wins a record 8th Hungarian Grand Prix in Budapest to equal Michael Schumacher’s record of wins at a single circuit (French GP).

Airbus Beluga XL, painted to look like the whale, makes its first flight, landing in Toulouse-Blagnac, France.

“Depacito” by Luis Fonsi ft. Daddy Yankee becomes the most streamed song ever, played 4.6 billion times.

Selena Gomez releases her debut solo studio album “Stars Dance”.

TV drama “Mad Men” debuts starring Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss and Vincent Kartheiser on cable network AMC.

26th Olympic Games open in Atlanta, Georgia.

Cincinnati Red Pete Rose is sentence to 5 months for tax evasion.

Canada joins the USA and other nations in protesting the invasion of Afganistan, by boycotting the 22nd Olympiad, opening today in Moscow; 81 other nations and 5,326 competitors attend; until August 3.

XV Summer Olympic Games open in Helsinki, Finland.

Marilyn Monroe acted in her first screen test.

Tom and Jerry first appear under their own names in cartoon “The Midnight Snack” by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera.

Start of Spanish flu epidemic that will kill over 30,000 people in Canada.

Maurice Garin wins the first Tour de France.

Louis Riel speaks at a meeting of Metis residents about rights, setting in motion the events now referred to as the Red River Rebellion.

Start of excavation of the Lachine Canal.

“The Sun” newspaper in Britain controversially publishes old picture and video of Queen Elizabeth giving Nazi salute in 1933.

The Government of Detroit, with up to $20 billion in debt, files for the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.

Kim Jong-un is officially appointed Supreme Leader of North Korea and given the rank of Marshal in the Korean People’s Army.

Romania’s 14-year-old star gymnast Nadia Comaneci, performing on the uneven parallel bars, scores the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics history.

Intel is founded in Mountain View, California.

The U.S. and Canada signed a treaty to develop the St. Lawrence Seaway.

Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf (original title was the catchy “Four and a Half Years (of Struggle) Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice”).

First human test of a vaccine against cholera; Ukrainian bacteriologist Waldemar Huffkine risks his life by testing it on himself.