Herman Melville’s novel “Moby Dick” was published by Harper & Brothers in New York.
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Ruby Bridges became the first African American girl to take classes at an all-white school in Louisiana.
Louis Timothee became America's first paid librarian.
NASA's Mariner 9 became the first spacecraft to orbit another planet when it entered Mars' orbit.
The James Bond movie 'Casino Royale,' with Daniel Craig as Bond, premiered in London.
The discovery of an Earth-like planet 3.2 times bigger than our world was announced.
