The Family Circus Comic Strip by Bill Keane debuted.
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Hattie McDaniel won Best Supporting Actress for her role in 'Gone With the Wind,' making her the first African American woman to win an Oscar.
Svend Robinson became the first Canadian MP to come out of the closet publicly.
The first warrants were issued to arrest three women accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, US.
A lunar eclipse saved explorer Christopher Columbus's life.
Future Pope John Paul II was almost killed by a Nazi truck in Krakow, Poland.
