Mozart’s last opera, “The Magic Flute,” premiered in Vienna.
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Hollywood actor James Dean died aged 24.
NASA launched the Endeavour space shuttle from the Kennedy Space Center on Mission STS-68.
Anesthetic was used for the first time on a dental patient by Dr. William Morton.
American animated sitcom 'The Flintstones,' which romanticized the Stone Age debuted on ABC.
A super-massive iceberg broke away from Antarctica.
