Ghazi bin Faisal became King of Iraq.
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William IV and Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen were crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom.
Margaret Gorman from Washington, D.C., became the very first Miss America.
'The Old Man and the Sea' by Ernest Hemingway was published in book form after first being published in Life Magazine on September 1.
Queen Elizabeth II of England officially opened the Severn Bridge in South West England.
A 34-year-old grandmother gave birth to four male quintuplets in Venezuela.