Elvis Presley reached number one in the UK charts with “Are You Lonesome Tonight?”
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Thirty thousand lives were lost after a major earthquake shook Lisbon.
The Beaumont children, Jane, Arnna, and Grant, vanished from a beach in Adelaide, Australia, and were never found.
A 60-ton decomposing whale exploded onto the busy streets of Taipei, Taiwan.
After being unearthed in South Africa, a 3,106-carat diamond became the world's largest.
A helicopter carrying nine people, including Kobe Bryant and his daughter, crashed in California with no survivors.