Elvis Presley’s “Heartbreak Hotel” made it into Billboard’s Top 100 pop chart.
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Nintendo released Zelda: Breath of the Wild, the first fully open-world Zelda game.
Steve Fossett completed the first around the world airplane solo non-stop journey.
The previously known District of Louisiana became the Louisiana Territory.
Los Angeles police brutally beat an unarmed Rodney King with batons up to 60 times.
NASA launched Apollo 9 crewed mission.
