The first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the USS Enterprise, was launched at Newport, Virginia 

Bill Bradley becomes 1st Cleveland baseball player (Cleveland Naps) to hit for cycle 

Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure of Red Circle (BG) 

Howard Walter Florey, pathologist, is born 

French engineer Henri Giffaud made the first flight in a dirigible balloon, from Paris to Trappe 

Paracelsus, Swiss physician, alchemist, and scientist, dies