NASA launched the Mariner 4 space probe on a mission to Mars.
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The Chicago Times-Herald sponsored the United States' first-ever car race, with the winning car going an average of 7 miles per hour.
Women voted in a general election for the first time in New Zealand.
The US SM-65 Atlas missile completed the first successful intercontinental ballistic missile launch.
Explorer Richard E. Byrd became the first person to fly over the South Pole.
East Timor declared its independence from Portugal.