The First Crusaders successfully sieged Jerusalem and took it from the Fatimid Caliphate.
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The British Museum in London was established after King George II gave his Royal assent to parliament.
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) resumed TV broadcasting for the first time since the end of WWII.
King Louis XIV of France was coronated.
The USSR's Venera 16 probe was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on a trip to Venus.
Queen Elizabeth I and George VI became the first king and queen of Great Britain to travel to the US.
