Garrett, an Odessa businessman and the son of Sheriff Pat Garrett, attested that his father had killed the notorious outlaw on July 14, 1881. The Lincoln Hotel is built. A study shows that only 3.2 percent of the population is illiterate, the lowest rate ever. The federal minimum wage is increased to 75 cents per hour. Puerto Rican nationalists fail in an attempt to assassinate President Truman on Nov. 1.
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