03/28/2024
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1864 – General Sherman conquers Savannah, Georgia.

1891 – 1st game of basketball, based on rules created by James Naismith, played by 18 students in Springfield, Massachusetts.

1909 – 1st junior high school established (Berkeley, California)

1913 – 1st crossword puzzle (with 32 clues) printed in NY World.

1921 – Supreme Court rules labor injunctions & picketing unconstitutional.

1929 – 1st group hospital insurance plan offered (Dallas, Tx)

1933 – Fox films signs Shirley Temple aged 5, to a studio contract.

1937 – The first full-length animated feature film and the earliest in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre.

1941 – National Football League Championship, Wrigley Field, Chicago: Chicago Bears beat New York Giants, 37-9; first team in NFL championship game era (since 1933) to win consecutive titles; Bears 5th title overall.

1959 – 10th largest snowfall in NYC history (13.7″)

1968 – Apollo 8: 1st manned Moon voyage launched with Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders.

1968 – Glen Campbell’s album “Wichita Lineman” goes to #1 in the US.

1970 – Oregon v. Mitchell Supreme Court case was decided, lowering the minimum voting age in U.S. federal elections to 18. The voting age for state and local elections was left to states discretion.

1975 – “Hello, Dolly” closes at Booth Theater NYC for 307 performances.

1983 – NCAA rules rescinded last 2-minute men’s basketball free throw rule.

1996 – Taiwanese-American AIDS researcher David Ho is named Time Magazine’s Man of the Year.

1997 – Detroit Lions Barry Sanders is 3rd to run for 2,000 yards in a season.

2016 – Carl Icahn is announced as Special Advisor to the President on Regulatory Reform, under President Donald Trump.

2017 – UN General Assembly votes 128 to 9 to denounce US decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

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