The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) began its radio service in the United Kingdom.
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The James Bond movie 'Casino Royale,' with Daniel Craig as Bond, premiered in London.
A 19-mile crater was found under the Greenland Glacier.
The musical 'Chicago' opened at Richard Rodgers Theater in New York City.
Dr. Fritz Derom performed a successful single-lung transplantation on patient Aloïs Vereecken at the University Hospital in Ghent, Belgium.
Herman Melville's novel 'Moby Dick' was published by Harper & Brothers in New York.