The first telephone call was made between New York and Chicago.
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Carolyn & Eugene Shoemaker and David Levy discovered the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet.
The Provincial Freeman Anti-slavery newspaper was first published in Ontario, Canada.
Five hundred and sixty people dressed as ghosts, to get a world record for the largest gathering of people dressed as ghosts.
Black citizens were given the right to vote in Canada.
Elvis Presley enlisted in the US army.
