The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) resumed TV broadcasting for the first time since the end of WWII.
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During the Great Plague of London, infected persons' homes were marked with crosses.
King Louis XIV of France was coronated.
Vatican City signed the Lateran Treaty making it an independent state.
The preview of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Cursed Child was shown at the Palace Theater in London.
King Kamehameha III of Hawaii signed the Declaration of Rights, which was a significant movement away from the country's 'ancient ways.'
