Automatic street lights first appeared in New Milford, Connecticut, US.
This marked the end for manual street lights.
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The original 'King Kong' movie was shown at Radio City Music Hall and RKO Roxy, New York City, US.
The Bank of England printed the first one-pound and two-pound banknotes.
Jupiter's moon was found to have a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.
The US spacecraft Pioneer 10 launched.
Two trains crashed in a snowstorm in Wellington, Washington, USA, claiming the lives of 96 people.
