- CNSA's Chang'e 4 becomes the first spacecraft to land on the far side of the Moon.
- A train accident on the Great Belt Fixed Link in Denmark kills 8 passengers.
- In darts, Michael van Gerwen (pictured) defeats Michael Smith to win the PDC World Championship.
- NASA's New Horizons space probe performs a successful flyby of trans-Neptunian object Ultima Thule.
- An apartment block collapses in Magnitogorsk, Russia, killing 38 people.
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