03/19/2024
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This Day In History1820 – 1st US eye hospital, the NY Eye Infirmary, opens in NYC.

1846 – Henry David Thoreau jailed for refusing to pay taxes.

1862 – Abraham Lincoln receives the first group of African Americans to confer with a US president.

1873 – “Field & Stream” begins publishing.

1912 – 2,500 US marines invade Nicaragua; US remains until 1925.

1932 – Philips makes 1 millionth radio.

1935 – Social Security Act becomes law.

1941 – US President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill issue the joint declaration that later becomes known as the Atlantic Charter.

1947 – Babe Didrikson Zaharias gives up her amateur golf status for $300,000.

1962 – US mail truck in Plymouth, Mass robbed of more than $1.5 million.

1965 – Sonny & Cher’s “I Go You Babe” hits #1.

1968 –  Montreal Expos officially become a member of National League.

1974 – Congress authorizes US citizens to own gold.

1980 – Democratic Convention in NYC nominates Jimmy Carter & Walter Mondale.

1991 – Twins Dave Winfield is 23rd to hit 400 HRs.

1995 – Shannon Faulkner becomes 1st female to attend the Citadel.

1997 – Convicted Oklahoma city bomber Timothy McVeigh formally sentenced to death by Oklahoma Court of Appeals.

2003 – Wide scale power blackout in the northeast United States and Canada.

2015 – Most extensive face transplant surgery ever performed on Patrick Hardison by Dr. Eduardo Rodriguez at New York University Langone Medical Center.

2017 – US President Donald Trump condemns racist violence at the White House after criticism of his earlier response to Charlottesville violence.

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