Jazz composer and musician John Coltrane received the Special Citation Pulitzer Prize after his death.
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Using gene therapy, eight babies suffering from ''bubble boy disease" were cured in Memphis, Tennessee.
The United Kingdom officially created its first National Park, the Peak District National Park.
Seven Irish prisoners broke out of the Western Australian Colony's Fremantle Prison and fled to the US.
Johns Hopkins University announced that the number of people who died worldwide due to the COVID-19 pandemic had reached three million.
1,400 Cuban exiles failed to overthrow Fidel Castro after landing in the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba.
