Elvis Presley reached number one in the UK charts with “Are You Lonesome Tonight?”
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Scottish inventor John Logie Baird changed the world of communication and entertainment forever when he demonstrated television for the first time.
A helicopter carrying nine people, including Kobe Bryant and his daughter, crashed in California with no survivors.
Stalin and officials walked out of Lady Macbeth opera, calling it a 'muddle,' not music.
England's first female bishop of the Church of England, Libby Lane, was ordained.
Michigan became the 26th state to join the United States of America.