03/29/2024
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This Day In History
1691 – Yorktown, Virginia founded.
1861 – President Lincoln prohibits Union states from trading with Confederacy.
1870 – Fred Goldsmith demonstrates curve ball isn’t an optical illusion.
1898 – Edwin Prescott patents roller coaster.
1904 – NYC begins building Grand Station Station.
1918 – US troops overrun at Archangelsk by Bolshevik troops.
1927 – 1st HR hit out of Comiskey Park, Chicago (NY Yankee Babe Ruth)
1947 – Ralph Kiner becomes 1st Pirates to hit 3 consecutive HRs.
1954 – “Sports Illustrated” magazine begins publishing.
1959 – USSR introduces installment buying.
1965 – AFL awards its 1st expansion franchise (Miami Dolphins)
1975 – “Rodgers & Hart” closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 108 performances.
1984 – LA federal jury acquits auto maker John Z. DeLorean on cocaine charges.
1987 – Northwest Airlines 255 plane crashes in Detroit, 156 die (1 lives).
1988 – NY Mayor Koch says he plans to wipe out street-corner windshield washers.
1988 – IBM introduces software for artificial intelligence.
1991 – President Bush declares recession is near an end.
2003 – US Representative from South Dakota Bill Janklow hits and kills a motorcyclist with his car at a rural intersection near Trent, South Dakota; he will eventually be convicted of manslaughter and will resign from Congress.
2012 – Julian Assange, Wikileaks founder, is granted political asylum by Ecuador.
2015 – 97th PGA Championship: Jason Day wins setting major championship record of 20-under-par.

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