Nintendo released the Donkey Kong arcade game in Japan.
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A fire broke out in 20th Century Fox's New Jersey film storage facility.
Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley & Comets reached #1 on the US singles charts.
Donald Trump became Mike Tyson's advisor.
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.
