Thomas Edison completed the world’s first movie studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
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The first scientific hand-held calculators (HP-35) hit the markets with a hefty price tag at $395.
Martin Luther King Jr. and 250 protestors were arrested.
An atomic bomb explosion was aired on TV for the first time.
Voice of America, the US' official external radio and television service, began broadcasting.
Isaac Briggs & William Longstreet was awarded a patent for the first steamboat in the US.