Almost 3/4th’s of all television sets in the USA are tuned into an episode of I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.

The National Review publishes its first issue.

TAP Portugal Flight 425 crashes in the Madeira Islands, killing all 130 onboard.

Vincent van Gogh’s Portrait of the “Artist Without Beard” sells for $71.5 million.

The music group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because they used session musicians to do the vocals!

Pelé scores his 1,000th goal in football