Fidel Castro’s revolutionary forces overthrew the Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista.
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A B747 plane by Air India flying from Bombay, India to Dubai, UAE, crashed with no survivors.
The dwarf planet Ceres was discovered by an Italian monk called Giuseppe Piazzi.
America banned all advertisements of cigarettes on TV and radio.
A Scandinavian research collaboration created the first-ever internet domain name Nordu.net.
Medical researcher Oswald Hope Robertson performed the first-ever blood transfusion using stored and refrigerated blood.
