Mozart’s last opera, “The Magic Flute,” premiered in Vienna.
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Anesthetic was used for the first time on a dental patient by Dr. William Morton.
A super-massive iceberg broke away from Antarctica.
Hollywood actor James Dean died aged 24.
American animated sitcom 'The Flintstones,' which romanticized the Stone Age debuted on ABC.
The US Navy commissioned USS Nautilus, which became the world’s first nuclear submarine.
