Pope John Paul IV visited New York, becoming the first Pope to visit the Western Hemisphere.
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The musical 'Sometime' put on its first performance at the Shubert Theatre on Broadway, New York City, US.
The second largest cash robbery in US history was committed.
Sputnik 1 became Earth's first artificial satellite to go into orbit.
John Lennon's album 'Walls and Bridges' was released in the US.
143 people were killed in a Siberian Airlines plane crash that was shot down by Ukrainian Missiles over the Black Sea.
