After nearly 80 years of business, the iconic plastic kitchenware brand Tupperware filed for bankruptcy.
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During his fourth and final voyage, Christopher Columbus arrived in Costa Rica.
Colonel Joseph William Kittinger II completed the first-ever trans-Atlantic crossing in a helium balloon.
The New York Times published its first issue.
Segregation led many students to walk out of Froebel High School, Gary, Indiana.
Rwanda, Burundi, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tebogo were admitted to the United Nations.