Isaac Briggs & William Longstreet was awarded a patent for the first steamboat in the US.
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Martin Luther King Jr. and 250 protestors were arrested.
An atomic bomb explosion was aired on TV for the first time.
The first reusable spacecraft called ''Space Shuttle Columbia" broke apart when returning to Earth, and all seven astronauts on board died.
Thomas Edison completed the world's first movie studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
The first volume of the Oxford English Dictionary was published.
