03/29/2024
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This Day In History

1672 – New York Governor Lovelace announces monthly mail service between New York & Boston.

1690 – Massachusetts Bay becomes first American colonial government to issue paper money.

1836 – Emory college (now Emory University) is chartered in Oxford, Georgia.

1884 – “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain is first published in the UK and Canada (US Feb 1885, due to printing error)

1906 – US President Theodore Roosevelt is the 1st American awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

1922 – Pete Henry makes longest known NFL drop-kicked field goal, 45 yards.

1927 – Grand Ole Opry makes its 1st radio broadcast, in Nashville, TN.

1936 – Edward VIII signs Instrument of Abdication, giving up the British throne to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson.

1950 – Ralph Bunche (1st black American) presented the Nobel Peace Price for mediation in Israel.

1961 – Houston Oiler Billy Cannon gains record 373 yards against Titans.

1962 – David Lean’s film “Lawrence of Arabia” based on life of T.E. Lawrence and starring Peter O’Toole, premieres at Odeon Leicester Square (Academy Awards Best Picture 1963).

1963 – 6 year old Donny Osmond’s singing debut on Andy Williams Show.

1971 – William H. Rehnquist confirmed as Supreme Court justice.

1984 – 1st “planet” outside our solar system discovered.

1985 – Bill to balance the federal budget passed by US Congress.

1991 – IM Pei receives $5 million for design of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

1992 – NY Yankees sign free agent pitcher Jimmy Key.

2001 – Nobel Prize for Economics awarded jointly to Joseph Stiglitz, George A. Akerlof and A. Michael Spence “for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information.

2009 – US President Barack Obama accepts the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo.

2013 – Mary Barra of General Motors becomes the first female CEO of a major automotive company.

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