The Oxygen TV Network debuted on cable.
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Queen Victoria's funeral took place at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, England.
'The Way We Were' by Barbra Streisand reached number one on the Billboard 100 charts.
The high-end fashion label Givenchy was presented for the first time in Paris, with the first model being Bettina Graziani.
Forty mummies were discovered and unearthed in Tuna el-Gebel, South Cairo, Egypt.
Captain William Dampier rescued British Sailor Alexander Selkirk after 52 months of being left on an island.
