Miriam Makeba(singer, referred to as Mama Africa)–
Events
The American Continental Congress established a full-time national Marine Corps, the Continental Marines –
Journalist Henry Morton Stanley located missing Scottish missionary, David Livingstone, in Central Africa, and delivered his famous greeting, Dr. Livingstone, I presume. –
Statue of Our Lady of Prompt Succor first in the United States to be canonically crowned, New Orleans, Louisiana –
National Book Week was first observed in the United States –
Jeweler Harry Winston donated the Hope Diamond to the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. –
Sesame Street made its television debut –
Gene Autry received a gold record for the single, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, 20 years after its release –
Luna 17 spacecraft launched –
The S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald, an ore boat with 29 crewmen aboard, sank during a storm on Lake Superior –
Weather
A tornado hit Great Bend, Kansas, killing 11 people and causing $1 million in damages –
A storm in Minnesota produced record-breaking low pressure –
More than seventy tornadoes churned across the eastern United States –
