Hasbro was founded as Hassenfeld Brothers in Providence, Rhode Island.
It started as a company to sell textile remnants.
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Adaptation directed by Spike Jonze, starring Nicolas Cage and Meryl Streep, premiered.
Claudius Amyand performed the first recorded appendectomy at St George's Hospital in London.
Spanish conquistadors founded the city of Quito.
A six-day siege began in London when an IRA unit took a couple hostage in their flat while fleeing the police.
Starbucks opened its largest cafe in the world in Shanghai, at 29,000 square-feet, which is 1/2 the size of a football field.