Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley & Comets reached #1 on the US singles charts.
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The first-ever Wimbledon Championship began.
Nineteen Dutch Catholic clerics, secular and religious people, known as the Martyrs of Gorkum, were hanged in Brielle, the Netherlands, by militant Dutch Calvinists.
Nintendo released the Donkey Kong arcade game in Japan.
Donald Trump became Mike Tyson's advisor.
Several internal explosions inside Britain's HMS Vanguard battleship occurred at Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands, Scotland.