Jimi Hendrix wrote “Purple Haze” backstage at the Upper Cut Club, London.
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A security patrol near RAF Woodbridge in Suffolk, UK, saw what they believed to be a UFO.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day in the US.
Jack Ruby's gun, which was used to kill Lee Harvey Oswald, sold for $220,000 in an auction.
After taking the world of technology by storm, the PC was named TIME's Man of the Year.
Marie and Pierre Curie announced their discovery of radium.