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Margaret Sullavan, actress (Back Street), overdose at the age of 48
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The Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security between the United States and Japan is signed in Washington, D.C.
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Joanne Woodward receives the first star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Southern California.
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American Heart Association Links smoking to heart disease and death in middle aged men
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1st weather satellite launched (TIROS 1)
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Elvis Presley's song "Are You Lonesome Tonight" is recorded for the first time
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Russwood Park, a baseball stadium in Memphis, Tennessee, burns to the ground from a fire shortly after a Chicago White Sox versus Cleveland Indians Major League Baseball game.
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1st atomic powered electric-drive submarine launched (Tullibee)
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•In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later took the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight after having won the Gold Medal in Rome in the Olympic games
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Steve Allen Show," last airs on NBC-TV
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Nan Winton becomes the first national female newsreader on BBC television.
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The U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy is nominated for President of the United States at the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles.
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Joseph Kittinger parachutes from a balloon over the State of New Mexico at 102,800 feet (31,333 m). Kittinger set unbeaten (as of 2005) world records for: high-altitude jump; free-fall by falling 16 miles (25.7 km) before opening his parachute; and also t
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1st photograph bounced off a satellite, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
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This year NASA sent up ECHO, the first communications satellite to be seen with the naked eye.
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KERA TV channel 13 in Dallas, TX (PBS) begins broadcasting
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Hanna Barbera's "The Flintstones" premieres on ABC
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Cassius Clay wins his first professional fight after having won the Gold Medal in Rome in the Olympic games
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The professional basketball player Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia 76ers gets 55 rebounds in an NBA game versus the Boston Celtics.
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Do Re Mi" opens at St James Theater NYC for 400 performances
