American poet Ezra Pound won the first annual Bollingen Prize for his poetry.
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Kellogg's Foods was founded in Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA.
The website Tumblr was launched by its founder David Karp.
A British company sent a 1,000-pound shipment of The Beatles wigs to the USA.
Thomas Edison received a patent for his new invention, the phonograph.
Captain William Smith discovered Williams Point at the far northeast of Livingston in the South Shetlands.
