King Louis XIV of France was coronated.
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The USSR's Venera 16 probe was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on a trip to Venus.
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) resumed TV broadcasting for the first time since the end of WWII.
Machine guns were fired from a US airplane for the first time.
The First Crusaders successfully sieged Jerusalem and took it from the Fatimid Caliphate.
Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ordered the breakup of Microsoft Corporation.
