The first Major League baseball game to be televised was played at Ebbets Field between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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The Soviets announced the successful test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).
Charles Lindbergh, the first man to accomplish a a solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic, passes away in Maui, Hawaii.
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