South Carolina became the 8th state to join the United States of America.
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The final episode of LOST aired.
Walt Disney incorporated his first film company called Laugh-O-Gram Studio.
Twelve doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston performed the first successful reattachment of a human limb – it was the severed arm of a boy.
A fire broke out in the Britannia Bridge in North Wales.
The first satellite launched by the US, the Explorer 1, stopped transmitting data.
