03/28/2024
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1835 – James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the New York Herald (price 1 cent)

1837 – US blacksmith John Deere creates the first steel plough in Grand Detour, Illinois.

1906 – “Temporary” permit to erect overhead wires on Market Street, San Francisco allows United Railroads to run electric streetcars.

1929 – New York to San Francisco footrace begins.

1938 – Dutch writer Maurits Dekker sentenced to 50 days for “offending a friendly head of state”. (Adolf Hitler)

1940 – Pulitzer prize awarded to John Steinbeck for “The Grapes of Wrath”

1950 – 70th Kentucky Derby: William Boland on Middleground wins in 2:01.6

1957 – Last broadcast of “I Love Lucy” on CBS-TV.

1960 – US President Eisenhower signs Civil Rights Act of 1960.

1966 – The Rolling Stones release “Paint it Black” in the US.

1967 – 400 students seize administration building at Cheyney State College, Pennsylvania.

1982 – Seattle Mariner Gaylord Perry becomes 15th pitcher to win 300 games.

1987 – Mario Andretti sets one-lap record at Indy at 218.204 MPH.

1987 – American televangelist Jim Bakker and Rich Dortch dismissed from Assemblies of God after reveleations of an alleged rape of a church secretary.

1991 – Space Shuttle STS 39 (Discovery 12) lands.

1996 – The body of former CIA director William Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he disappeared.

2002 – Entrepreneur Elon Musk founds SpaceX.

2011 – The US Department of Labor states that 244,000 jobs were created in April, with 235,000 added in February and 221,000 in March, but unemployment continues to grow, reaching 9%.

2013 – Wal-Mart becomes the largest company by revenue on the Fortune 500 list.

2013 – The US Senate passes a bill enabling taxing of online sales.

2020 – At least 90,000 healthcare workers worldwide infected by COVID-19, more than 260 nurses have died according to International Council of Nurses.

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