Fidel Castro’s revolutionary forces overthrew the Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista.
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Portuguese navigators discovered Rio de Janeiro.
The Julian Calendar was used for the first time.
The country of Czechoslovakia peacefully dissolved into two nations, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Ellis Island opened as a US immigration inspection station.
A B747 plane by Air India flying from Bombay, India to Dubai, UAE, crashed with no survivors.
