Frugal parents mailed their four-year-old child 73 miles from their home to the child’s grandparents.
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The USSR launched the Mir core module, the first module of the new space station.
American poet Ezra Pound won the first annual Bollingen Prize for his poetry.
Alcohol was prohibited in Kansas.
Captain William Smith discovered Williams Point at the far northeast of Livingston in the South Shetlands.
Kellogg's Foods was founded in Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA.
