January 24 - Teenage star Danny Peppermint[?] is nearly killed when he is electrocuted by a microphone stand at the Thunderbird Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. Peppermint is rushed to a hospital where he recovers.
April 12 - A recording is made of Bob Dylan's concert at the Town Hall, in New York City by Columbia Records. Columbia would eventually release the recording of "Tomorrow Is a Long Time" from this concert
... first at the South Pole, first to navigate the Northwest Passage in a single ship
Roy Chapman Andrews, (1884-1960), US explorer
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Vasco Nunez de Balboa, (c. 1475-1519), ...