The website Tumblr was launched by its founder David Karp.
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Opera 'Alexander's Feast' by George Frideric Handel premiered in London.
A British company sent a 1,000-pound shipment of The Beatles wigs to the USA.
American poet Ezra Pound won the first annual Bollingen Prize for his poetry.
Captain William Smith discovered Williams Point at the far northeast of Livingston in the South Shetlands.
Nazi Cabinet minister Hermann Göring banned all Catholic newspapers.
