Explorer Christopher Columbus was given funding for his first journey.
He signed the contract in Santa Fe near Granada, Spain, and set sail to find the Indies on August 3.
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1,400 Cuban exiles failed to overthrow Fidel Castro after landing in the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba.
Jazz composer and musician John Coltrane received the Special Citation Pulitzer Prize after his death.
Sirhan Sirhan was convicted of killing US Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
American boarding house owner Mary Surratt was arrested for taking part in President Lincoln's assassination.
Slavery in Ethiopia came to an end thanks to Emperor Haile Selassie.
