Roger Maris 1934
- 1846 - Elias Howe received a patent for his sewing machine.
- 1897 - British police arrest George Smith for drunken driving. It was the first DWI.
- 1913 - The Lincoln Highway opened. It was the first paved coast-to-coast highway in the U.S.
- 1940 - In Britain, Buckingham Palace was hit by German bomb.
- 1953 - Swanson began selling its first "TV dinner."
- 1955 - "Gunsmoke" premiered on CBS.
- 1979 - U.S. President Carter(D) granted clemency to four Puerto Rican nationalists who had been imprisoned for an attack on the U.S. House of Representatives in 1954 and an attempted assassination of U.S. President Truman in 1950.
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