Frugal parents mailed their four-year-old child 73 miles from their home to the child’s grandparents.
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American poet Ezra Pound won the first annual Bollingen Prize for his poetry.
Opera 'Alexander's Feast' by George Frideric Handel premiered in London.
The iconic book 'The Feminine Mystique' was published by Betty Friedan.
Captain William Smith discovered Williams Point at the far northeast of Livingston in the South Shetlands.
The USSR launched the Mir core module, the first module of the new space station.