Patsy Cline released her single “I Fall to Pieces.”
The single went on to being the Billboard Song of the Year in 1961.
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South Korea's first launch vehicle successfully reached orbit for the first time.
Adolf Hitler was named Chancellor of Germany.
A three-day-long ''dense smog" rolled through London.
The US embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, closed due to increasing security concerns.
Researchers identified the earliest known prehistoric ancestor of humans.