The Today Show aired for the first time on NBC-TV with Dave Garroway and Jack Lescoulie as hosts.
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Queen Margrethe II became the first Queen of Denmark since 1412.
US President Franklin D. Roosevelt arrived in Morocco, where he met British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to discuss allies during World War II.
US President Jimmy Carter expressed his support for Martin Luther King's birthday to become a national holiday.
The clarinet was invented in Nuremberg, Germany, by Johann Christoph Denner.
Elizabeth Bennet became the first woman to give birth by a Cesarean section in the United States.