American poet Ezra Pound won the first annual Bollingen Prize for his poetry.
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Captain William Smith discovered Williams Point at the far northeast of Livingston in the South Shetlands.
Frugal parents mailed their four-year-old child 73 miles from their home to the child's grandparents.
The website Tumblr was launched by its founder David Karp.
Thomas Edison received a patent for his new invention, the phonograph.
An Irish cook in New York, US, infected 53 people with typhoid.