Inventor and electrical engineer Guglielmo Marconi applied for the patents for the radio.
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P.T. Barnum and his circus began touring the United States.
Her Majesty The Queen became the first British Monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee.
NASA's UK-6 was launched into space.
Tom Bradley, Mayor of Los Angeles, signed the first US gay rights bill.
Mexico elected its first female president, Claudia Sheinbaum.
