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The Soviet spacecraft Luna 3 allowed the world to look at the far side of the moon for the first time.
The Sonderkommandos, prisoners who took care of the bodies at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, protested their pending mass murder.
The first-ever infrared photo was taken in Rochester, New York.
The Netherlands' flag carrier airline was founded under the name KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.
Willem II became King of the Netherlands.