Elvis Presley reached number one in the UK charts with “Are You Lonesome Tonight?”
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The Ranger 3 robotic spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
England's first female bishop of the Church of England, Libby Lane, was ordained.
A helicopter carrying nine people, including Kobe Bryant and his daughter, crashed in California with no survivors.
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.