Gutzon Borglum began sculpting Mount Rushmore.
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143 people were killed in a Siberian Airlines plane crash that was shot down by Ukrainian Missiles over the Black Sea.
John Lennon's album 'Walls and Bridges' was released in the US.
The musical 'Sometime' put on its first performance at the Shubert Theatre on Broadway, New York City, US.
Sputnik 1 became Earth's first artificial satellite to go into orbit.
The Orient Express started its first journey from Paris to Istanbul.
