03/29/2024
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1776 – First revolutionary flag raised.

1811 – US Sen. Thomas Pickering is first senator censured (revealed confidential documents communicated by the president of the US)

1842 – first US wire suspension bridge for general traffic opens in Pennsylvania.

1882 – Because of anti-monopoly laws, Standard Oil is organized as a trust.

1893 – First US commemorates & first US stamp to picture issued (Queen Isabella, patron of Columbus)

1900 – John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China.

1906 – Willis Carrier receives a US patent for the world’s first air conditioner.

1921 – 1st religious service radio broadcast in US, KDKA-Pittsburgh.

1929 – US & Canada agree to preserve Niagara Falls.

1934 – 1st state liquor stores open, in Pennsylvania.

1938 – Book publisher Simon and Schuster founded.

1954 – Herman Wouk’s “Caine Mutiny,” premieres in NYC.

1960 – Senator John F. Kennedy, announces his candidacy for the US Presidency.

1965 – Martin Luther King Jr. begins a drive to register black voters.

1969 – Australian Rupert Murdock gains control of the ‘News of the World’

1975 – US Department of Interior designates grizzly bear a threatened species.

1986 – Mulroney & Reagan sign Canada-US free trade agreement.

1990 – Dow Jones hits record 2,800 (2810.15)

1999 – A brutal snowstorm smashes into the Midwestern United States, causing 14 inches of snow in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and 19 inches in Chicago, where temperatures plunged to -13 degrees F; 68 deaths are reported.

2017 – US House Republicans vote to gut the independent Office of Congressional Ethics, a public uproar forces them to back down the next day.

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