On this day in...
1928 - The lion's roar was heard for the first time at the beginning of MGM's first talking motion picture White Shadow of the Seven Seas.
1932 - In the Reichstag elections, the Nazis won 230 seats but had no overall majority.
1942 - Driving for pleasure was banned in Britain.
1956 - Policeman Charles Ward gave Elvis Presley a speeding ticket.
1965 - Cigarette advertising was banned on British television.
1970 - The Rolling Stones contract with Decca Records expired.
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