LOOKING BACK

1929: civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in Atlanta.

1942: Jawaharlal Nehru was named to succeed Mohandas K. Gandhi as head of India’s Congress Party.

1974: the situation comedy “Happy Days” premiered on ABC-TV.

1976: Sara Jane Moore was sentenced to life in prison for her attempt on the life of President Gerald R. Ford in San Francisco.