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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The US embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, closed due to increasing security concerns.
Adolf Hitler was named Chancellor of Germany.
Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated.
Captain James Cook reached a record 1,130 miles from the South Pole.
A three-day-long ''dense smog" rolled through London.