Seven Irish prisoners broke out of the Western Australian Colony’s Fremantle Prison and fled to the US.
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Using gene therapy, eight babies suffering from ''bubble boy disease" were cured in Memphis, Tennessee.
Jazz composer and musician John Coltrane received the Special Citation Pulitzer Prize after his death.
1,400 Cuban exiles failed to overthrow Fidel Castro after landing in the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba.
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.
