The British TV series “The Office” first aired on the BBC.
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A fire broke out in 20th Century Fox's New Jersey film storage facility.
Several internal explosions inside Britain's HMS Vanguard battleship occurred at Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands, Scotland.
The first president of the United States of America, George Washington, read the Declaration of Independence.
Nineteen Dutch Catholic clerics, secular and religious people, known as the Martyrs of Gorkum, were hanged in Brielle, the Netherlands, by militant Dutch Calvinists.
British Princess Elizabeth got engaged to Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten.
