Alaska became the 49th State to join the United States of America.
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Workers began construction on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York.
Aretha Franklin became the first-ever female artist to enter the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
A woman in Rome became the first person to receive a bionic hand that can sense touch.
Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tried to fly his famous Flying Machine invention for the first time.
During the Battle of Princeton, British forces were defeated in New Jersey by George Washington's revolutionary army.
