Billboard magazine started ranking sales of recorded songs.
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Tobacco arrived in England for the first time.
The Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War was signed in Geneva, Switzerland.
Martin Luther King Jr. was jailed while performing a public prayer at the city hall in Albany, Georgia, US.
The US Department of Foreign Affairs, the fledgling nation's first federal agency, was established.
Tony Hawk landed the first '900' on a skateboard at the 5th annual X Games in San Francisco.