NBC-TV premiered “Late Night with David Letterman.”
The first guest was comedian and actor Bill Murray.
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Martin Luther King Jr. and 250 protestors were arrested.
Mary Queen of Scots received the death sentence from cousin Queen Elizabeth I.
Thomas Edison completed the world's first movie studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
House of Cards, starring Kevin Spacey, was released as a Netflix Original.
Isaac Briggs & William Longstreet was awarded a patent for the first steamboat in the US.
