Elvis Presley reached number one in the UK charts with “Are You Lonesome Tonight?”
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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.
Flight attendant Vesna Vulović survived the world's highest fall without a parachute after falling 33,330 feet.
The first Winter Olympics medal was awarded to American Skater Charles Jewtraw after skating 5,000 meters in just 44 seconds.
A 60-ton decomposing whale exploded onto the busy streets of Taipei, Taiwan.