Elvis Presley’s “Heartbreak Hotel” made it into Billboard’s Top 100 pop chart.
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Florida became the 27th state to join the United States of America.
Steve Fossett completed the first around the world airplane solo non-stop journey.
The previously known District of Louisiana became the Louisiana Territory.
A field in Bath County, Kentucky, was showered by a steady rain of mystery meat. This became known as the Kentucky meat shower.
The US National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics was founded as an emergency measure during WWI.
