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Olympic Games: The Games of the XIV Olympiad: After a hiatus of 12 years caused by World War II, the first Summer Olympics to be held since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, open in London.
Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont.
NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.
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