03/18/2024
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This Day In History1608 – John Smith’s story of Jamestown’s first days submitted for publication.

1889 – William Gray patents coin-operated telephone.

1898 – US forces under Admiral George Dewey captures Manila during Spanish-American War.

1907 – 1st taxicabs operate in New York City, imported by Harry N. Allen.

1914 – Carl Wickman begins Greyhound, the 1st US bus line, in Minnesota.

1923 – US Steel Corp initiates 8-hour work day.

1939 – Sabotage suspected in crash of ‘City of San Francisco’

1950 – US President Harry Truman gives military aid to Vietnamese regime of Bao-Dai.

1959 – US Military satellite Discoverer 5 launched (into polar orbit)

1963 – Warren Spahn sets let-hander strike-out mark at 2,382.

1977 – 1st test glide of space shuttle.

1979 – Lou Brock is 14th to get 3,000 hits.

1987 – Jackie Joyner-Kersee ties world record with 24’5 1/2″ jump.

1989 – US space shuttle STS-28 lands.

1993 – US Court of Appeals rules Congress must save all E-Mail.

1996 – Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 3.0.

2004 – Hurricane Charley, a Category 4 storm, strikes Punta Gorda, Florida and devastates the surrounding area.

2013 – “Crash My Party”, 4th studio album by Luke Bryan is released (Billboard Album of the Year 2014)

2015 – Swedish Prosecutors announce they are dropping allegations against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange of sexual molestation and coercion.

2015 – US Government formally returns to France Picasso’s painting La Coiffeuse, stolen from Paris’ National Museum of Modern Art in 2001.

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