“Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,” the second book in the series, was published by Bloomsbury in the UK.
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The first Earl of Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, was arrested for high treason in England.
A peace agreement was signed between King John of England and Prince Louis VIII of France, marking the end of the Siege of Roche-au-Moine, France.
North and South Vietnam were formally reunified after more than twenty years of war.
American aviator Amelia Earhart disappeared.
During a thunderstorm in Charleston, South Carolina, the National Weather Service reported an alligator falling from the sky.
