The US spacecraft Viking 2 landed on Mars and began sending pictures of the red planet to earth 

Malcolm Campbell reached a new world land speed record of 30113 mph in Bluebird on Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah 

Philadelphia Giants win Negro Championship Cup in Philadelphia before 10,000 fans 

Pittsburgh Pirates, win earliest pennent (full season) 

Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure of Illustrious Client 

Boer General Smuts enters Kiba Drift in Cape Colony 

Macfarlane Burnet, Australian immunologist, is born