Inventor Frederick E. Blaisdell patented the pencil in the US.
He called it “sheathing with paper sheaths.”
Source
Pelé, the legendary Brazilian soccer star, scored his 1,000th goal.
The People's Republic of China launched Shenzhou 1, the first uncrewed Shenzhou spacecraft.
A meteorite weighing 8kg landed southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.
One of the greatest speeches of all American history, The Gettysburg Address, was given by Abraham Lincoln.
The Great Flood of St Petersburg killed 10,000 people and affected almost half a million more.
