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.
Julian Assange launched WikiLeaks.com.
John Lennon's album 'Walls and Bridges' was released in the US.
Sputnik 1 became Earth's first artificial satellite to go into orbit.
The pocket watch patent was awarded to Dutch mathematician and scientist Christiaan Huygens.
