The temperature plunged to -81.4°F in Snag, Yukon, Canada, making it the coldest recorded temperature in North America.
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Switzerland opened the world's first commercial cheese factory.
Mother Teresa and The Pope met in Calcutta, where they both fed the sick.
The first weather satellite (ESSA-1) was launched into orbit from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
The first paper money was issued in America in the Colony of Massachusetts.
New Zealand suffered its most fatal natural disaster in history during the Hawke's Bay Earthquake.