The Today Show aired for the first time on NBC-TV with Dave Garroway and Jack Lescoulie as hosts.
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The clarinet was invented in Nuremberg, Germany, by Johann Christoph Denner.
US President Jimmy Carter expressed his support for Martin Luther King's birthday to become a national holiday.
Norway was ceded to Sweden by King Frederik VI of Denmark.
US President Franklin D. Roosevelt arrived in Morocco, where he met British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to discuss allies during World War II.
An accidental explosion aboard the USS Enterprise near Hawaii killed 28 people.