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Tommie Smith, American sprinter and football player; winner of 1968 Olympic 200m gold medal in a world record time
Bill Dickey, American baseball player and manager who played in eight World Series, winning seven (died 1993)
Viktor Korchnoi, Russian chess grandmaster; arguably the best player never to become World Chess Champion (born 1931)
Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries.
The inaugural edition of the Cricket World Cup, the premier international championship of men's One Day International cricket, began in England.
The first World Oceans Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Tim Berners-Lee, English computer scientist, invented the World Wide Web
Frankie Abernathy, American purse designer, cast-member on The Real World: San Diego (born 1981)
The first African FIFA World Cup kicks off in South Africa.
The Limelight Department, one of the world's first film studios, is officially established in Melbourne, Australia.
World Day Against Child Labour, and its related observances: Children's Day (Haiti)
The Boeing 777, the world's largest twinjet, made its maiden flight.
Émile Levassor wins the world's first real automobile race. Levassor completed the 732-mile course, from Paris to Bordeaux and back, in just under 49 hours, at a then-impressive speed of about fifteen�
World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought (international)
Charlotte Motor Speedway holds its first NASCAR race, the inaugural World 600.
Subhash Mukherjee, Indian scientist and physician who created India's first, and the world's second, child using in-vitro fertilisation (born 1931)