Seven Irish prisoners broke out of the Western Australian Colony’s Fremantle Prison and fled to the US.
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Ford Mustang went on sale for the first time.
Jazz composer and musician John Coltrane received the Special Citation Pulitzer Prize after his death.
Johns Hopkins University announced that the number of people who died worldwide due to the COVID-19 pandemic had reached three million.
American boarding house owner Mary Surratt was arrested for taking part in President Lincoln's assassination.
The movie 'Thor' premiered in cinemas in Sydney, Australia.