At 77 years old, John Glenn becomes the oldest human ever to travel in space. He is launched into orbit as a payload specialist on board the space shuttle Discovery. Glenn's trip comes nearly four decades after he became the first American to orbit the Earth.

At the age of 47, sports car maker Ferruccio Lamborghini debuts his first sports car, the Lamborghini 350GTV. It is not received well, but the designer goes on to remake the car, leading to one of the most elegant luxury sports cars on the market.

The Lion in Winter debuts, starring Katharine Hepburn. The movie would win 61-year-old Hepburn her third Oscar. Hepburn would make movies into the late 1990s before her death at the age of 96 in 2003.

Pittsburgh radio station KDKA broadcasts the results of the presidential race in the first significant public radio news broadcast. By 1922, 500 radio stations will broadcast programs, signaling the start of the electronic entertainment era.

In one of the biggest Oops! of all time, the Chicago Tribune mistakenly declares New York Gov. Thomas Dewey the winner of the presidential race in a front-page headline that reads "Dewey Defeats Truman." In fact, incumbent Harry S. Truman defeats Dewey by 114 electoral votes and holds up the flawed paper for a now iconic photo.