The Supreme Court decides Roe v. Wade, the Boeing 747 flies for the first time, Apple introduces its Macintosh computer in a Super Bowl ad, and the Unabomber pleads guilty, all on this day.
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2010: Conan O'Brien ends his brief tenure on "The Tonight Show" a day after it was announced he had accepted a $45 million buyout from NBC to leave the show after only seven months. He would eventually start a new late night talk show, "Conan," on TBS on Nov. 8, 2010.