Jazz composer and musician John Coltrane received the Special Citation Pulitzer Prize after his death.
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Explorer Christopher Columbus was given funding for his first journey.
Slavery in Ethiopia came to an end thanks to Emperor Haile Selassie.
American boarding house owner Mary Surratt was arrested for taking part in President Lincoln's assassination.
1,400 Cuban exiles failed to overthrow Fidel Castro after landing in the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba.
Sirhan Sirhan was convicted of killing US Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
