03/28/2024
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1858 – Britain’s Queen Victoria telegraphs US President James Buchanan for 1st time by transatlantic telegraph cable, he replies “It is a triumph more glorious, because far more useful to mankind, than was ever won by conquer on the field of battle.”

1898 – Edwin Prescott patents roller coaster.

1904 – NYC begins building Grand Central Station.

1924 – US National Championship Women’s Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Defending champion Helen Wills Moody beats 7-time winner Molla Bjurstedt Mallory 6-1, 6-3.

1930 – The first color sound cartoon “Fiddlesticks” by Ub Iwerks (ex Walt Disney studio) is released.

1936 – XI Summer Olympic Games close in Berlin.

1947 – Ralph Kiner becomes 1st Pittsburgh Pirate 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)

1969 – Second day of the Woodstock Festival in Bethel, New York; performers include Santana, John Sebastian; Mountain, Grateful Dead, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Janis Joplin, Sly and the Family Stone, The Who and Jefferson Airplane.

1976 – PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Congressional CC: Dave Stockton wins 2nd PGA Championship in a Monday bad weather finish: by 1 stroke from Ray Floyd & Don January.

1984 – LA federal just acquits auto maker John Z DeLorean on cocaine charges.

1987 – Northwest Airlines 255 plane crashes in Detroit, 156 die (1 lives)

1988 – Mayor Koch says he plans to wipe out street-corner windshield washers.

1990 – Iraq orders 4000 Britons & 2500 Americans in Kuwait to Iraq.

2003 – U.S. 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 – Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange is granted political asylum by Ecuador.

2016 – Wildfire breaks out in San Bernardino County, California, engulfing 15,000 acres, prompting evacuation of 82,000 people.

2018 – Brandt Snedeker shoots 10th sub-60 round in PGA history with an 11-under par 59 in the opening round of the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, N.C.

2020 – Japan’s economy, the world’s third largest, posts its worst-ever decline, falling 7.8% (April-June quarter)

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