03/28/2024
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This Day In History1787 – Pennsylvania becomes 2nd state to ratify US constitution.

1800 – Washington, DC, established as he capital of the United States of America.

1878 – Joseph Pulitzer begins publishing “St. Louis Dispatch”

1899 – George F. Bryant of Boston patents the wooden golf tee.

1914 – The largest one-day percentage drop in the history of Dow Jones Industrial Average, down 24.39%.

1925 – Arthur Heinman coins term “motel”, opens Motel Inn, San Luis Obispo.

1937 – NBC & RCA sends 1st mobile-TV-vans onto the streets of NY.

1946 – ‘Tide’ detergent introduced.

1946 – UN accepts 6 Manhattan blocks as a gift from John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

1957 – US announces manufacture of Borazon (harder than diamond)

1961 – Martin Luther King, Jr. & 700 demonstrators arrested in Albany, Georgia.

1965 – Gale Sayers of Chicago Bears scores 6 TDs, ties NFL record.

1968 – Arthur Ashe becomes 1st black to be ranked #1 in tennis.

1969 – “Hello Dolly” with Barbra Streisand premieres.

1979 – Gold hits record $462.50 an ounce.

1980 – US’s copyright law amended to include commuter programs.

1986 – James “Bone Crusher” Smith TKOs WBA champ Tim Witherspoon in Madison Square Garden.

1995 – Amendment to make it illegal to physically desecrate the flag turned down by senate 63-36 (need 2/3 vote).

2013 – The United States announces sanctions on the two dozen companies who assisted Iran with their nuclear program.

2015 – COP21 climate change summit in Paris reaches a deal between 195 countries to limit the rise in the global average temperature to less than 2 C above pre-industrial levels.

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