Cyprus gained its independence from the United Kingdom.
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More than 1,200 tin homes were destroyed after a fire broke out in the Chalantika slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
The first issue of Sports Illustrated magazine is published.
A solar flare from the sun created a geomagnetic storm, which caused Toronto's stock market to halt.
The Junkers Ju 287, the first jet with forward-swept wings, made its first flight.
NASA launched its Active Magnetospheric Particle Tracer Explorers mission (AMPTE) from the Cape Canaveral launch pad.
