03/28/2024
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This Day In History
1842 – Micah Rugg patents a nuts & bolts machine.
1842 – US Naval Observatory authorized by an act of Congress.
1886 – 1st major earthquake recorded in eastern US, at Charleston, SC, 110 die.
1887 – Thomas Alva Edison patents Kinetoscope (produces moving pictures)
1895 – 1st pro football game (QB John Brallier paid $10 & won 12-0)
1909 – A.J. Reach Co. patent cork-centered baseball.
1918 – Boston Red Sox, win easiest AL pennant ever (season ended September 2)
1920 – Detroit radio station is 1st to broadcast a news program on the air.
1935 – FDR signs an act prohibiting export of US arms to belligerents.
1941 – Great Gildersleeve, a spin-off of Fibber McGee & Molly debuts on NBC.
1951 – 1st 33 1/3 album introduced in Dusseldorf.
1955 – 1st sun-powered automobile demonstrated, Chicago, Ill.
1959 – Sandy Koufax breaks Dizzy Dean’s NL mark of 18 strikeouts in a game.
1968 – Private Eye magazine reports a John Lennon and Yoko Ono album will have a picture of them nude on cover.
1978 – Emily & William Harris plead guilty to 1974 kidnapping of Patty Hearst.
1980 – “Oklahoma!” closes at Palace at Theater NYC after 301 performances.
1987 – Curtis Strange sets golf’s earning for year record ($697,385)
1997 – Scott Hoch wins Greater Milwaukee Golf Open with a 268.
2012 – Apple loses its patent dispute with Samsung in Tokyo, Japan.
2015 – US President Barak Obama arrives in Alaska on a 3 day tour highlighting climate change.

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