Jackie Robinson signed the first Major League Baseball contract for a Black ballplayer.
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Halley's Comet made its closest approach to Earth in recorded history.
A 14-year-old girl performed the world's first human cannonball in London, England.
Walter Hunt patented the safety pin.
The first-ever color 3D movie, 'House of Wax,' premiered in New York.
The Statute of Anne became the UK's first copyright law.
