Prospero became the first British satellite to have been launched successfully by a British rocket.
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The World Health Organization ranked Tuberculosis as deadly as HIV in its list of the world's most deadly diseases.
Macy's Department Store first opened.
Fingerprinting was first officially used in the US in a St. Louis police department.
Writer Ernest Miller Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
The Cuban Missile Crisis Ended.
