The first episode of Breaking Bad premiered on AMC.
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Feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton became the first woman to testify before Congress.
In a letter and on television, President Jimmy Carter announced that the Olympics should not take place in Moscow, Russia.
Air Inter Flight 148 crashed in the Vosges Mountains in France while circling to land at Strasbourg Airport.
The USA's first African-American President, Barack Obama, conducted his first address.
Buzz Aldrin, the second man to set foot on the Moon, married Anca Faur on his 93rd birthday.
