Headlines
Barry Bonds hits his 756th career home run, passing Hank Aaron for the Major League career home run record.
NASA launches the Phoenix spacecraft on a Delta II rocket (pictured), beginning a mission to Mars.
An outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in the United Kingdom prompts the banning of exports from Great Britain (but not Northern Ireland) of livestock and other animal products.
Patriarch Teoctist I of the Romanian Orthodox Church dies of surgical complications after an operation for prostate adenoma and is buried in Bucharest.
Russian MIR bathyscaphes perform the first crewed descent to the seabed at the North Pole in a bid to strengthen the claim for an extension of Russia's continental shelf.
A series of floods on the Indian subcontinent leaves millions homeless, with the Gangetic plain in India and its delta in Bangladesh being the worst affected areas.
A highway bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, collapses, sending more than fifty vehicles into the Mississippi River.
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