Arnold Daniel Palmer 1929
- 1846 - Elias Howe received a patent for his sewing machine.
- 1899 - A second quake in seven days hit Yakutat Bay, AK. It measured 8.6.
- 1913 - The Lincoln Highway opened. It was the first paved coast-to-coast highway in the U.S.
- 1953 - Swanson began selling its first "TV dinner."
- 1955 - "Gunsmoke" premiered on CBS.
- 1955 - Bert Parks began a 25-year career as host of the "Miss America Pageant" on NBC.
- 1979 - U.S. President Carter 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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