The first telephone call was made between New York and Chicago.
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Black citizens were given the right to vote in Canada.
Elvis Presley enlisted in the US army.
King James VI of Scotland was crowned King James I of England and Ireland.
Carolyn & Eugene Shoemaker and David Levy discovered the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet.
A truck carrying margarine and flour caught fire inside the Mont Blanc Tunnel.
