1,400 Cuban exiles failed to overthrow Fidel Castro after landing in the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba.
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The movie 'Thor' premiered in cinemas in Sydney, Australia.
FedEx officially began its operations and flew 186 packages to 25 cities on the US's East Coast.
Jazz composer and musician John Coltrane received the Special Citation Pulitzer Prize after his death.
Seven Irish prisoners broke out of the Western Australian Colony's Fremantle Prison and fled to the US.
American boarding house owner Mary Surratt was arrested for taking part in President Lincoln's assassination.
