The world’s first satellite navigation system, Transit 1-B, was successfully launched from the US.
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The world's largest plane, The Stratolaunch, had its first flight from the Mojave Desert in California.
Star Trek actor George Takei had an asteroid named after him.
The Ottoman forces took over Cairo, Egypt.
US President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the Jefferson Memorial to Thomas Jefferson.
John Dryden was appointed as England's first Poet Laureate by King Charles II.
