US President Jimmy Carter expressed his support for Martin Luther King’s birthday to become a national holiday.
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An accidental explosion aboard the USS Enterprise near Hawaii killed 28 people.
Norway was ceded to Sweden by King Frederik VI of Denmark.
The clarinet was invented in Nuremberg, Germany, by Johann Christoph Denner.
Segregation of races on public transport became illegal as ruled by US Supreme Court.
Elizabeth Bennet became the first woman to give birth by a Cesarean section in the United States.
