The US celebrated the opening of the country’s first railroad station in Baltimore.
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Black men were chased away by gunmen after trying to rescue white survivors during a mine explosion.
President Truman announced to the people of America that they successfully developed a hydrogen bomb.
A 57-year-old man received the first transplanted heart from a genetically modified pig.
The Sahara desert was blanketed in snow.
The first-ever photograph of genes was taken.