The Statue of Liberty celebrated its 100th birthday.
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The Cuban Missile Crisis Ended.
Fingerprinting was first officially used in the US in a St. Louis police department.
Writer Ernest Miller Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Prospero became the first British satellite to have been launched successfully by a British rocket.
Lee Jang Rim, the founder of the Dami Mission Christian Movement in South Korea, declared that the world would end.