Segregation of races on public transport became illegal as ruled by US Supreme Court.
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The Today Show aired for the first time on NBC-TV with Dave Garroway and Jack Lescoulie as hosts.
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.
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Elizabeth Bennet became the first woman to give birth by a Cesarean section in the United States.