Cellular mobile phone service was made available to the American public for the first time.
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Margaret Symons became the first woman to speak in British Parliament.
The Safety Hood, which would later become the gas mask, was patented by Garrett Morgan.
The American singer and songwriter Bob Dylan posthumously won a Nobel prize in literature.
The American drama film 'All About Eve,' by Joseph L. Mankiewicz starring Bette Davis, premiered in the US.
115,000-year-old human bones found in Poland turned out to be from a Neanderthal child who was eaten by a giant bird.
