Thomas Edison founded Edison Electric Light Company in New York City.
Pablo Picasso's show opens at Berthe Weill Gallery
Mahatma Gandhi attempts to register all Indians as members into the Boer Republic Transvaal
Einstein completes General Theory of Relativity
Frank Lloyd Wright starting using a building process called the textile block system
Martha Graham presents her first independent concert at the 48th Street Theater in New York City
Amelia Earhart becomes first woman to fly across the Atlantic
Walt Disney: the U.S. State Department sent Disney and a group of animators to South America as part of its Good Neighbor policy, at the same time guaranteeing financing for the resultant movie, Saludos Amigos.
Maria Callas opens seasons at La Scala, Milan in "I Vespri Sicilani."
Buckminster Fuller made first geodesic dome
Alfred Hitchcock releases his famous movie "Psycho"
Jim Henson shows The Muppets on the Today Show
Bob Dylan sings during Civil Rights "March on Washington for jobs and freedom"
Martin Luther King Jr. gives "I Have a Dream" speech
the Kennedy administration backed the coup against the government of Iraq headed by Abd al-Karim Qasim, who five years earlier had deposed the Western-allied Iraqi monarchy
Muhammad Ali fights Sonny Liston for Heavyweight title
