Michigan became the 26th state to join the United States of America.
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Flight attendant Vesna Vulović survived the world's highest fall without a parachute after falling 33,330 feet.
Frank Sinatra performed to 175,000 people who paid to see him in Rio de Janeiro.
Scottish inventor John Logie Baird changed the world of communication and entertainment forever when he demonstrated television for the first time.
The Beaumont children, Jane, Arnna, and Grant, vanished from a beach in Adelaide, Australia, and were never found.
England's first female bishop of the Church of England, Libby Lane, was ordained.
