FedEx officially began its operations and flew 186 packages to 25 cities on the US’s East Coast.
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Game of Thrones premiered on HBO.
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.
1,400 Cuban exiles failed to overthrow Fidel Castro after landing in the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba.
Explorer Christopher Columbus was given funding for his first journey.
