20th Century Fox was founded after a merger of Fox Film Corporation and Twentieth Century Pictures.
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Imperial Japan began a series of submarine attacks on Sydney.
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English civil servant Samuel Pepys recorded his last diary entry.
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Congress passed the Enforcement Act.