The first motion picture was shown to a theater audience at the Philadelphia Academy of Music.
Source
The general interest family magazine Reader's Digest was first published.
NASA's Apollo 14 mission landed on the Moon.
A nuclear bomb was lost off the coast of Georgia, US.
Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island, arrived from England in the Massachusetts Bay Colony to become a minister in a Boston church.
The Comic Relief charity created ''Red Nose Day" in the United Kingdom, and raised £15 million ($19 million).
