Roger Williams granted charter for colony Rhode Island –
Clement Hardy was issued a patent for a rotary disk plow –
NYC Mayor Robert A. Van Wyck formally broke ground for construction of the NYC subway system –
President FDR issued statement appealing to Hungarians to help Jews escape from Nazis (WWII) –
Nicholas Alkemade survived an 18,000-foot fall from a plane –
The Tennessee Williams play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof opened on Broadway, with Barbara Bel Geddes as Maggie, Ben Gazarra as Brick, and Burl Ives as Big Daddy –
Entertainer Elvis Presley was inducted into the U.S. Army –
Maser patented –
Senator Robert Kennedy was first to reach summit of Mt. Kennedy in Yukon Territory –
U.S. spacecraft Ranger 9 crash-landed precisely on target in the Alphonsus crater of the moon after transmitting to Earth 5,814 photographs of the crater region –
The beaver became a symbol of Canadian sovereignty –
French premier Jacques Chirac signed a contract to build the first Disneyland-type amusement park in Europe, on the outskirts of Paris –
The largest oil spill in U.S. history, initially estimated at 240,000 barrels, occurred after the Exxon Valdez struck Bligh Reef in Alaska’s Prince William Sound –
An 18.7-inch-long goldfish set a world record
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Boston archbishop Sean O’Malley was elevated to cardinal at a ceremony in St. Peter’s Square in Rome –
Weather
Eighty-three degrees F at Plymouth, Indiana –
Twenty-five inches of snow, Kansas City, Missouri –
92 degrees F in St. Louis, Missouri –
Snow in the mid-Atlantic states covered cherry blossoms, which had bloomed in the previous week’s 80-degree temperatures –
