Liechtenstein became the 160th member of the United Nations.
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The second Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London, opened.
Colonel Joseph William Kittinger II completed the first-ever trans-Atlantic crossing in a helium balloon.
The award-winning drama movie 'A Streetcar Named Desire' was released in the US.
The US spacecraft, Voyager, took the first-ever photograph of the moon and Earth together from space.
Tiffany & Co was founded by Charles Tiffany and John Young in Brooklyn, Connecticut.