Jazz composer and musician John Coltrane received the Special Citation Pulitzer Prize after his death.
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Ford Mustang went on sale for the first time.
1,400 Cuban exiles failed to overthrow Fidel Castro after landing in the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba.
Game of Thrones premiered on HBO.
Explorer Christopher Columbus was given funding for his first journey.
Sirhan Sirhan was convicted of killing US Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
