03/28/2024
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1901 – SS Islander hits iceberg near Alaska and sinks, killing 70 people.

1912 – 2,500 US Marines invade Nicaragua. United States remains until 1925.

1920 – VII Summer Olympic Games open in Antwerp, Belgium. First time Olympic Oath voiced, doves released to symbolize peace, and Olympic flag flown.

1932 – Philips makes 1 millionth radio.

1935 – Social Security Act becomes law.

1937 – Appalachian Trail is formally completed, traversing 2,000 miles and 14 states from Georgia to Maine.

1945 – V-J Day, Japan surrenders unconditionally to end WW II (also August 15, depending on time zone)

1959 – First American Football League meeting is held in Chicago. Charter membership handed to Dallas, New York, Houston, Denver, Los Angeles and Minneapolis-St. Paul. AFL named following week.

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

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

1973 – United States ends secret bombing of Cambodia.

1982 – Pete Rose (Philadelphia Phillies) 12,365 at bats sets record (passes Hank Aaron)

1985 – Michael Jackson buys ATV Music (including publishing rights to most of the Beatles song catalog) for $47.5 million. Ten years later he sells 1/2 of his interest to Sony for $150 million.

1990 – Denver votes for a 1% sales tax to pay for a baseball franchise.

1994 – British Open Women’s Golf, Woburn, Duke’s Course: Liselotte Neumann wins by 3 strokes from fellow Swede Annika Sorenstam. It was the first LPGA-sanctioned Open.

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

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

2011 – PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Atlanta Athletic Club: Keegan Bradley wins first major title by 1 stroke in 3-hole aggregate playoff with fellow American Jason Dufner.

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

2021 – Calder Fire, near Lake Tahoe, begins in California, goes on to destroy 1,000 structures and over 218,000 acres.

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