The United States and Canada formed NORAD – the North American Air Defense Command.
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After encountering many difficulties, Nathan Stubblefield was finally granted a US patent for his new version of a wireless telephone.
National Hospital Day was first observed.
Juan María Fernández y Krohn tried to assassinate Pope John Paul II with a bayonet.
The US Commerce Department decided that hurricane names would no longer be only female.
The Soviet Union's Luna 5 uncrewed spacecraft crash-landed on the Moon.
