After recording for four years, Duffy released her debut studio album “Rockferry.”
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A field in Bath County, Kentucky, was showered by a steady rain of mystery meat. This became known as the Kentucky meat shower.
The US National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics was founded as an emergency measure during WWI.
The previously known District of Louisiana became the Louisiana Territory.
Elvis Presley's 'Heartbreak Hotel' made it into Billboard's Top 100 pop chart.
The USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear-powered submarine, was decommissioned in California.