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–
