The General Electric Company was formed in New York.
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The King of England, Henry VIII, appointed Thomas Cromwell as the Chief Secretary.
The Titanic sunk at 2:20 am in the North Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Newfoundland.
The island of Malta was awarded the George Cross by King George VI of England.
The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress bomber successfully completed its first flight.
NASA launched a spacecraft to rendezvous with a small communication satellite.
