Rwanda, Burundi, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tebogo were admitted to the United Nations.
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Segregation led many students to walk out of Froebel High School, Gary, Indiana.
The second Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London, opened.
During his fourth and final voyage, Christopher Columbus arrived in Costa Rica.
UN Women Goodwill Ambassador Emma Watson received a standing ovation for her gender inequality speech at the United Nations Headquarters, New York, US.
The US spacecraft, Voyager, took the first-ever photograph of the moon and Earth together from space.