ABC premiered Walt Disney’s first TV show, “Disneyland.”
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NASA's Saturn I rocket was tested for the first time in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
Riots broke out in Paris, France, after two Muslim teenagers were electrocuted trying to evade police.
The first successful operation of conjoined twins joined at the head was completed in New Delhi, India.
Inventor Fred Waller patented the aquaplane, which would become water skis.
Gliese 229B became the first brown dwarf to be seen and identified by astronomers.
