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Expo 67 officially opens in Montreal, Quebec, Canada with a large opening ceremony broadcast around the world. It opens to the public the next day.
The Airbus A380, the world's largest passenger airliner, made its maiden flight from Toulouse, France.
The Expo 67 world's fair opened in Montreal, with 62 nations participating and more than 50 million visitors ultimately attending.
Workers' Memorial Day and World Day for Safety and Health at Work (international) National Day of Mourning (Canada)
Frenchman Louis Paulhan landed his biplane at Manchester, having departed from London the previous day, to win the world's first long-distance air race.
CERN announces World Wide Web protocols will be free.
New York City's Empire State Building (pictured), at the time the tallest building in the world, opened.
Hong Kong Police Force, the world's second modern police force and Asia's first, is established.
A dust explosion (depicted) at the world's largest flour mill in Minneapolis resulted in 18 deaths.
First ascent of Shishapangma, the fourteenth highest mountain in the world and the lowest of the Eight-thousanders.
The Off-Broadway show The Fantasticks premiered, eventually becoming the world's longest-running musical, with 17,162 performances across 42 years.
Nona Gaprindashvili, Georgian chess player, Women's World Champion, 1962-1978
The 108-story Sears Tower in Chicago is topped out at 1,451 feet (442 m) as the world's tallest building.
In the papal bull Inter caetera, Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Line of Demarcation.
Belinda Green, Australian beauty queen and 1972 Miss World
The World Health Organization declares the end of the COVID-19 pandemic as a global health emergency.
On his second voyage to the New World, Christopher Columbus sights Jamaica, landing at Discovery Bay and declares Jamaica the property of the Spanish crown.