The Times of India was founded, making it the largest English-language newspaper in the world.
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Queen Elizabeth II inaugurated the flow of oil from the UK's first-ever oil pipeline.
The Soviet Union sent a dog into space aboard the spacecraft Sputnik II.
The parliament of England passed the first Act of Supremacy, granting the monarch complete control of the Church of England.
Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah became the first elected female State Senator in the United States.
Explorer Christopher Columbus, on his second voyage, found Dominica and the Kalinago people.
