South Carolina became the 8th state to join the United States of America.
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The first satellite launched by the US, the Explorer 1, stopped transmitting data.
Benjamin Franklin announced his invention of bifocal eyeglasses.
A fire broke out in the Britannia Bridge in North Wales.
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.
Police killed Bonnie and Clyde.
