The first episode of Breaking Bad premiered on AMC.
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Marvin Gaye's 'What's Going On' single was released.
NASA mission STS-72 landed at the Kennedy Space Center after eight days in space.
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.
Feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton became the first woman to testify before Congress.