Elvis Presley’s “Heartbreak Hotel” made it into Billboard’s Top 100 pop chart.
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NASA launched Apollo 9 crewed mission.
A field in Bath County, Kentucky, was showered by a steady rain of mystery meat. This became known as the Kentucky meat shower.
Nintendo released Zelda: Breath of the Wild, the first fully open-world Zelda game.
In Auckland, New Zealand, Sky Tower opened, making it the tallest free-standing building in the Southern Hemisphere.
The notorious John Dillinger used a wooden pistol to break out of prison.