J.C. Penney’s opened their first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
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Sputnik 2 soviet spacecraft burned up, returning through Earth's atmosphere.
The children's cooking show, Matilda and the Ramsay Bunch, premiered on CBBC in the UK.
America published the country's first American Dictionary of English Language.
The French Revolutionary War began after France declared war on Austria.
NATO accidentally bombed a refugee convoy in Kosovo, killing seventy-three.
