03/28/2024
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1834 – Congress creates Indian Territory (now Oklahoma)

1896 – W.S. Hadaway patents electric stove.

1898 – Winton Motor Carriage Company publishes the first known automobile ad in Scientific American using the headline “dispense with a horse.”

1906 – US Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act, these laws owe much to the expose journalism of the period (Updon Sinclair’s ‘The Jungle’ in particular)

1928 – Radio Service Bulletin lists radio stations call signs that are to be changed to conform with international standards.

1936 – 40 hour work law approved for US federal employees.

1936 – Margaret Mitchell’s novel “Gone with the Wind” published.

1938 – Superman 1st appears in DC Comics’ Action Comics Series issue #1.

1940 – US Fish and Wildlife Service forms.

1953 – 1st Chevrolet Corvette manufactured.

1960 – US stops sugar import from Cuba.

1967 – Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr. named 1st black astronaut.

1971 – Ohio becomes 38th state to approve of lower voting age to 18, thus ratifying 26th amendment.

1977 – US Railway Post Office final train run (NY to Washington, D.C.)

1982 – Federal Equal Rights Amendment fails 3 states short of ratification.

1994 – US Ice Skating Federation bars Tonya Harding for life.

1998 – Sega Channel, cable’s 1st on-demand video game service, closes down.

2012 – Mid-Atlantic storms in the United States kill 13 and leave millions without power in Ohio, Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia.

2014 – US Supreme Court rules that family-owned corporations can reject provision of ‘Obamacare’ on religious grounds.

2018 – The popular online game for children, Fantage, shuts down after ten years.

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