Elvis Presley reached number one in the UK charts with “Are You Lonesome Tonight?”
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Stalin and officials walked out of Lady Macbeth opera, calling it a 'muddle,' not music.
Michigan became the 26th state to join the United States of America.
Flight attendant Vesna Vulović survived the world's highest fall without a parachute after falling 33,330 feet.
England's first female bishop of the Church of England, Libby Lane, was ordained.
The Ranger 3 robotic spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.