Stanley Kubrick’s X-rated film “A Clockwork Orange” premiered, which was based on the book by Anthony Burgess.
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William Pitt the Younger became the youngest British Prime Minister ever at age 24.
Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt was presumed dead after being swept out to sea by a riptide.
A Christmas Carol by English author Charles Dickens was published.
The Fellowship of the Ring, the first Lord of the Rings film, was released in theaters.
The three ships carrying settlers who would later found Virginia, the first of the Thirteen Colonies, departed England.
