Johnny Cash released “Folsom Prison Blues.”
It went on to win the Billboard Song of the Year.
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Major Glenn Miller, musician, and composer, disappeared over the English Channel during a flight.
The American Psychiatric Association officially declared that homosexuality is not a mental illness.
The US Patents Office was nearly completely burned down.
Former French President Jacques Chirac was convicted of diverting public funds and received a two-year suspended prison sentence.
China successfully landed its moon rover.