Queen Elizabeth II personally opened the 23rd parliamentary session in Canada, the first and only time for her.
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Queen Elizabeth II officially reopened London's Euston Railway Station.
William the Conqueror defeated English forces at The Battle of Hastings.
The detective novel 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' by Arthur Conan Doyle was published.
African American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. won the Nobel Peace Prize.
NASA's space probe Magellan burned in the Venus atmosphere.