Elvis Presley reached number one in the UK charts with “Are You Lonesome Tonight?”
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A 60-ton decomposing whale exploded onto the busy streets of Taipei, Taiwan.
Flight attendant Vesna Vulović survived the world's highest fall without a parachute after falling 33,330 feet.
England's first female bishop of the Church of England, Libby Lane, was ordained.
The Beaumont children, Jane, Arnna, and Grant, vanished from a beach in Adelaide, Australia, and were never found.
Scottish inventor John Logie Baird changed the world of communication and entertainment forever when he demonstrated television for the first time.
