The British Broadcasting Company Ltd (BBC) was founded.
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Rocksteady Games released the grittiest Batman game to date, Batman: Arkham City.
Hurricane Hazel hit the American East Coast and became the worst to hit North America.
American gangster Al Capone pleaded guilty to tax evasion.
African-American poet Phillis Wheatley was freed from slavery.
Canada legally declared women as 'persons.'
