Vatican City signed the Lateran Treaty making it an independent state.
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Queen Elizabeth I and George VI became the first king and queen of Great Britain to travel to the US.
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) resumed TV broadcasting for the first time since the end of WWII.
Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ordered the breakup of Microsoft Corporation.
Machine guns were fired from a US airplane for the first time.
King Kamehameha III of Hawaii signed the Declaration of Rights, which was a significant movement away from the country's 'ancient ways.'
