Disney bought Capital Cities, ABC, and ESPN for $19 billion.
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Cliff Richard and The Drifters' single 'Living Doll' reached number one in the UK charts and stayed there for six weeks.
The first edition of the script for 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child' was published.
Samuel Hopkins was awarded the first US patent.
The country of Georgia joined the United Nations shortly after the country became independent.
The satirical book 'Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect' by Robert Burns was published.