The website Tumblr was launched by its founder David Karp.
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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.
Opera 'Alexander's Feast' by George Frideric Handel premiered in London.
American poet Ezra Pound won the first annual Bollingen Prize for his poetry.
Alcohol was prohibited in Kansas.