A Dutch scientist named Heike Kamerlingh Onnes announced he was able to create solid helium.
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The Family Circus Comic Strip by Bill Keane debuted.
The first warrants were issued to arrest three women accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, US.
Joe Biden won the South Carolina primary election.
The UK's Prince Harry was withdrawn from a military tour of Afghanistan.
Future Pope John Paul II was almost killed by a Nazi truck in Krakow, Poland.
