William IV and Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen were crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom.
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'Star Trek: The Original Series' aired for the first time on NBC-TV.
Margaret Gorman from Washington, D.C., became the very first Miss America.
'The Old Man and the Sea' by Ernest Hemingway was published in book form after first being published in Life Magazine on September 1.
A 34-year-old grandmother gave birth to four male quintuplets in Venezuela.
Queen Elizabeth II of England officially opened the Severn Bridge in South West England.
