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Lamar Hunt, American businessman, co-founded the American Football League and World Championship Tennis (died 2006)
One of the world's earliest underground tube railways opened in the Tower Subway (interior depicted), a tunnel beneath the River Thames in London.
Tandy Corporation announces the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers.
The world's first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus, becomes the first vessel to complete a submerged transit of the geographical North Pole.
Santa Claus Land, the world's first themed amusement park, opens in Santa Claus, Indiana, United States.
Tandy Corporation announced the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers.
Jiddu Krishnamurti (pictured), believed by some Theosophists to be a likely candidate for the messianic "World Teacher", dissolved the Order of the Star, the organisation established to support him.
Jeanne Calment, French super-centenarian; holds records for the world's substantiated longest-lived person (born 1875)
Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW makes its first appearance as a publicly available service on the Internet.
Philippe Petit performs a high wire act between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center 1,368 feet (417 m) in the air.
The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.
The World Health Organization declared the Western African Ebola epidemic, which began in December 2013, to be a public health emergency of international concern.
The German airship Graf Zeppelin departed Lakehurst, New Jersey, on a flight to circumnavigate the world.
International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples (United Nations)
The Louvre (pyramid pictured) in Paris, today the world's most-visited museum, opened with an exhibition of 537 paintings and 184 objets d'art.
Major League Baseball players go on strike, eventually forcing the cancellation of the 1994 World Series.
Christopher Columbus arrives in the Canary Islands on his first voyage to the New World.
Norris McWhirter, Scottish publisher and activist co-founded the Guinness World Records (died 2004)
Ross McWhirter, Scottish publisher and activist, co-founded the Guinness World Records (died 1975)