Neil Armstrong flew the X-15 craft to an altitude of 34 miles (54.6 km).
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A swamp rabbit attacked President Jimmy Carter while he was fishing in Plains, Georgia.
The first official performance of Macbeth by Shakespeare took place at the Globe Theatre in London, England.
French mathematician Pierre Louis Maupertuis began his journey to Lapland to plot the shape of the Earth.
Marie and Pierre Curie isolate radium in Paris, France.
The League of Nations was officially dissolved by its member states.
