Michelle Obama’s memoir “Becoming” surpassed 10 million copies sold after four months of circulation.
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The first photo of the moon was taken by John Draper in New York City.
The US tested the TX-17 thermonuclear bomb for the first time in Bikini Atoll of the Marshall Islands.
The first edition of the Book of Mormon was published in Palmyra, New York.
Sir Henry Thompson conducted the UK's first cremation on the corpse of Mrs. Jeannette C. Pickersgill.
East Pakistan declared its independence from Pakistan, forming Bangladesh.
