03/28/2024
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This Day In History1586 – Sir Walter Raleigh brings first tobacco to England from Virginia.

1789 – US Congress establishes Department of Foreign Affairs now referred to as the State Department.

1844 – Fire destroys US mint at Charlotte, North Carolina.

1888 – Philip Pratt unveils 1st American electric tricycle.

1909 – Orville Wright tests 1st US Army airplane, flying 1h-12m-40s.

1918 – Socony 200, 1st concrete barge in US, launched to carry oil, NY.

1931 – Grasshoppers in Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota destroyed thousands of acres of crops.

1940 – Bugs Bunny, Warner Bros. cartoon character created by Tex Avery, Bob Given (Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series), first debuts in “Wild Hare”

1944 – US troops occupy le Mesnil-Herman/Hill 183 Normandy.

1947 – Yankee catcher Yogi Berri starts record 148 game errorless streak.

1959 – William Shea announces plans to have a baseball team in NYC in 1961.

1965 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs a bill requiring cigarette makers to print health warnings on all cigarette packages about the effects of smoking.

1974 – House Judiciary Committee votes 27-11 recommends Nixon impeachment.

1983 – Gaylord Perry joins Nolan Ryan & Steve Carlton to reach 3,500 career strikeouts this season, he also wins his 1st game as a Royal.

1987 – First expedited salvaging of Titanic wreck begins by RMS Titanic, Inc.

1991 – TV Guide publishes its 2000th edition.

1993 – NBC TV awarded 1996 Olympic coverage for $456 million.

2003 – 90th Tour de France: no winner (Lance Armstrong disqualified)

2017 – Amazon founder Jeff Bezos briefly becomes world’s richest man at $91.4B overtaking Bill Gates for one day.

2017 – Reince Priebus resigns as Chief of Staff to US President Donald Trump, shortest non-interim tenure ever.

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