The temperature plunged to -81.4°F in Snag, Yukon, Canada, making it the coldest recorded temperature in North America.
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Mother Teresa and The Pope met in Calcutta, where they both fed the sick.
Rock and roll musician Buddy Holly died during a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa.
The first paper money was issued in America in the Colony of Massachusetts.
P.T. Barnum purchased the world-famous circus elephant Jumbo.
The first weather satellite (ESSA-1) was launched into orbit from Cape Canaveral, Florida.