King Louis XIV of France was coronated.
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The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) resumed TV broadcasting for the first time since the end of WWII.
The USSR's Venera 16 probe was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on a trip to Venus.
During the Great Plague of London, infected persons' homes were marked with crosses.
Machine guns were fired from a US airplane for the first time.
Queen Elizabeth I and George VI became the first king and queen of Great Britain to travel to the US.
