Inventor Frederick E. Blaisdell patented the pencil in the US.
He called it “sheathing with paper sheaths.”
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Pope Hilarius became the Bishop of Rome.
A meteorite weighing 8kg landed southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.
Television broadcasting company CBS banned a Calvin Klein Jeans advertisement.
The Nintendo Wii was released in the US.
The People's Republic of China launched Shenzhou 1, the first uncrewed Shenzhou spacecraft.
