The New York Horticultural Society was founded.
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The St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line became the world's first scheduled flight.
America built the first rocket to reach an altitude of 50 miles (80 km).
New York became the first US court to allow blood test results to be used as evidence.
NASA's Columbia Space Shuttle was successfully launched from the Kennedy Space Center.
Four people died, and at least twenty were injured in a terrorist attack near the Houses of Parliament in London.
