NBC-TV premiered “Late Night with David Letterman.”
The first guest was comedian and actor Bill Murray.
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King Carlos I of Portugal and his heir were assassinated in Lisbon.
Martin Luther King Jr. and 250 protestors were arrested.
Thomas Edison completed the world's first movie studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
An atomic bomb explosion was aired on TV for the first time.
The first volume of the Oxford English Dictionary was published.
