03/28/2024
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This Day In History1818—Congress decided US flag is 13 red & white strips & 20 stars.

1841—Vice President John Tyler becomes the 10th President of the United States after the death of President William Henry Harrison.
 
1850—City of Los Angeles incorporated.
 
1862—US begins Peninsular Campaign aimed at capturing Richmond during US Civil War.
 
1870—Golden Gate Park forms by City Order #800.
 
1887—Susanna Medora Salter elected 1st US woman mayor (Argonia, KS)
 
1902—Cecil Rhodes scholarship fund forms with $10 million.
 
1911—Hugh Chalmers, automaker, suggests idea of baseball MVP.
 
1916—US Senate agrees (82-6) to participate in WWI.
 
1932—George Bernard Shaw’s “Too True to be Good” premieres in NYC.
 
1937—4th Golf Masters Championship: Byron Nelson wins, shooting a 283.
 
1948—84-year-old Connie Mack challenges 78-year-old Clark Griffith to a race from home to 1st base; it ends in a tie.
 
1960—32 Academy Awards-“Ben Hur”, Charlton Heston & Simone Signoret win.
 
1968—Apollo 6 launched atop Saturn V: unmanned.
 
1968—US civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee.
 
1974—Hank Aaron ties Babe Ruth’s home-run record by hitting his 714th.
 
1975—Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen.
 
1983—45th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: NC State beats Houston 54-52.
 
1991—Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six others are killed when a helicopter collides with their plane over an elementary school in Merion, Pennsylvania.
 
1994—56th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: Arkansas Razorbacks beats Duke 76-72.
 
1997—Braves officially open Turner Field against Cubs.
 
2008—Raid on Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints owned YFZ Ranch in Texas: 401 children and 133 women taken into state custody.
 
2014—President of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, claims that climate change will lead to battles over water and food within the next five to ten years.

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