Water Music by George Frideric Handel premiered on the River Thames, London, at the request of King George I.
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The US National Minimum Drinking Age Act was signed into law, raising the age to 21.
The British Royal family changed their surname to Windsor.
The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project completed the world's first international space rendezvous.
The English secret service discovered the Babington Plot to murder Queen Elizabeth I.
John Lennon was given 60 days to leave the US.
