The US celebrated its very first National Book Awards.
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Samoset became the first Native American to make contact with the Plymouth colony.
The first African American newspaper called 'Freedom's Journal' was published in the US.
Van's opened its first store at 704 East Broadway in Anaheim, California.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono were served deportation papers for overstaying in the US.
George Clooney and Martin Luther King III were arrested at the Sudanese Embassy in Washington, DC.
