03/28/2024
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1838 – Kentucky passes law permitting women to attend school under conditions.

1852 – Studebaker Brothers wagon company, precursor of the automobile manufacturer, is established.

1883 – “Ladies Home Journal” begins publishing.

1909 – 1st subway car with side doors goes into service (NYC)

1927 – US restores diplomatic relations with Turkey.

1932 – 1st patent for a tree issued to James Markham for a peach tree.

1937 – DuPont Corp patents nylon, developed by employee Wallace Carothers.

1945 – US forces land on Corregidor, complete conquest on March 3.

1950 – Longest-running prime-time game show, “What’s My Line” begins on CBS.

1961 – US satellite Explorer 9 is launched.

1963 – North Carolina forward Billy Cunningham grabs a record 27 rebounds in a game vs Clemson.

1968 – US 1st 911 phone system goes into service in Haleyville, Alabama.

1968 – Elvis Presley receives a gold record for “How Great Thou Art”

1975 – 17th Daytona 500: Benny Parsons wins after Cale Yarborough sends race leader David Pearson spinning on the backstretch; Parsons avoids the accident and takes the victory.

1984 – 3-time men’s figure skating world champion Scott Hamilton of the US wins the gold medal at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics from Brian Orser of Canada and Jozef Sabovcik of Czechoslovakia.

1992 – 34th Daytona 500: Davey Allison joins father Bobby as a race winner: Richard Petty and A.J. Foyt’s final drive in the event.

1999 – O.J. Simpson’s 1968 Heisman Trophy is sold for $230,000 to help settle a $33.5 million civil judgement against Simpson for the deaths of his ex-wife and her friend.

2006 – The last Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.

2019 – Pope Francis defrocks ex-cardinal and archbishop of Washington Theodore McCarrick for sexually abusing minors and adults.  First Cardinal to be removed for sexual abuse.

2020 – America evacuates 400 citizens from COVID-19-infected cruise ship Diamond Princess quarantined in Yokohama port, Japan.

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