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Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED KINGDOM
English athlete who ran the first sub-4-minute mile (1929–2018)
The inaugural all-female motorsport series
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL
Single-seater racing championship
The Kentucky Derby is televised nationally for the first time
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED STATES
American stakes race for Thoroughbreds, part of the Triple Crown
Closing ceremony of the Intercalated Games in Athens
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL
International multi-sport event in Greece
The Memphis Race Riots begin. Over three days
📜 INDIAN ARMY🌍 UNITED STATES
Massacre of the Black community of Memphis, Tennessee
Three-time Formula One champion Ayrton Senna is killed in an accident during the San Marino Grand Prix.
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL
Motorsport championship held worldwide
Formula One racing driver Roland Ratzenberger is killed in a crash during the qualifying session of the San Marino Grand Prix run at Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari outside Imola
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 ITALY
Motorsport championship held worldwide
A baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox sets the all-time low attendance mark for Major League Baseball. Zero fans were in attendance for the game
📜 CITIES🌍 UNITED STATES
American professional baseball team
Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED KINGDOM
Pioneering French aviator
Vietnam War: Boxer Muhammad Ali refuses his induction into the United States Army and is subsequently stripped of his championship and license.
📜 INDIAN ARMY🌍 UNITED STATES
1955–1975 war in Southeast Asia
Ice hockey makes its Olympic debut at the Antwerp Games with center Frank Fredrickson scoring seven goals in Canada’s 12–1 drubbing of Sweden in the gold medal match.
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 CANADA
Team winter sport
The 1906 Intercalated Games open in Athens.
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL
International multi-sport event in Greece
British yachtsman Sir Robin Knox-Johnston wins the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race and completes the first solo non-stop circumnavigation of the world.
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 UNITED KINGDOM
British yacht racer (born 1939)
Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300 becoming the first female driver in history to win an Indy car race.
📜 HISTORY🌍 UNITED STATES
American racing driver (born 1982)
Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is killed in a shootout with police. His brother Dzhokhar is later captured hiding in a boat inside a backyard in the suburb of Watertown.
📜 HISTORICAL EVENTS🌍 GLOBAL
2013 domestic terrorist attack in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.