Ernest Hemingway’s “To Have and Have Not” was published in the US.
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NASA's Galileo spacecraft skimmed by Jupiter's moon, Lo, at just 112 miles (180 km).
The children's novel 'Charlotte's Web' was published by E. B. White.
At 11 years old, Grace Bedell wrote to Abraham Lincoln, saying he should grow a beard.
The world's largest Legoland theme park opened in Winter Haven, Florida.
Aviation pioneers, the Montgolfier brothers, made the first human ascent in a hot air balloon.
