Margaret Gorman from Washington, D.C., became the very first Miss America.
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Ghazi bin Faisal became King of Iraq.
Queen Elizabeth II of England officially opened the Severn Bridge in South West England.
London serial killer Jack the Ripper claimed his second victim, Annie Chapman.
US President Gerald Ford officially pardoned Richard Nixon for any crimes he committed as President.
'The Old Man and the Sea' by Ernest Hemingway was published in book form after first being published in Life Magazine on September 1.
