The Phantom, the world’s first superhero, appeared in the self-titled comic strip by Lee Falk.
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A potential new continent was discovered in the South Pacific.
Voyager 1 passed Pioneer 10 to become the most distant human-made object in space.
Polish mountaineers Krzysztof Wielicki and Leszek Cichy became the first to ascend Mt. Everest in winter.
Oregon became the first US state to pass a minimum wage law.
Julius Wolff supplied the first canned sardines from Maine, USA.
