The United Kingdom officially created its first National Park, the Peak District National Park.
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1,400 Cuban exiles failed to overthrow Fidel Castro after landing in the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba.
Game of Thrones premiered on HBO.
Ford Mustang went on sale for the first time.
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.
