Feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton became the first woman to testify before Congress.
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'In Old Arizona' became the first full-length talking motion picture filmed outdoors.
The US published its first book on Geology – 'Observations on the Geology of the United States' by William Maclure.
Air Inter Flight 148 crashed in the Vosges Mountains in France while circling to land at Strasbourg Airport.
Ozzy Osbourne bit the head off a bat that a fan threw onto the stage during a performance in Des Moines, Iowa.
In a letter and on television, President Jimmy Carter announced that the Olympics should not take place in Moscow, Russia.
