The British TV series “The Office” first aired on the BBC.
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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.
Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley & Comets reached #1 on the US singles charts.
The first president of the United States of America, George Washington, read the Declaration of Independence.
Andy Warhol presented his artwork for the first time at the Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, US.