A British company sent a 1,000-pound shipment of The Beatles wigs to the USA.
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The USSR launched the Mir core module, the first module of the new space station.
Nazi Cabinet minister Hermann Göring banned all Catholic newspapers.
American poet Ezra Pound won the first annual Bollingen Prize for his poetry.
Captain William Smith discovered Williams Point at the far northeast of Livingston in the South Shetlands.
The website Tumblr was launched by its founder David Karp.