Opera “Alexander’s Feast” by George Frideric Handel premiered in London.
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Captain William Smith discovered Williams Point at the far northeast of Livingston in the South Shetlands.
An Irish cook in New York, US, infected 53 people with typhoid.
Alcohol was prohibited in Kansas.
American poet Ezra Pound won the first annual Bollingen Prize for his poetry.
A British company sent a 1,000-pound shipment of The Beatles wigs to the USA.
