The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) resumed TV broadcasting for the first time since the end of WWII.
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The USSR's Venera 16 probe was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on a trip to Venus.
The Day of the Tiles took place.
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.'
King Louis XIV of France was coronated.
