03/29/2024
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1908 – Katie Mulcahey is arrested for lighting a cigarette, violating the one-day old “Sullivan Ordinance” banning women from smoking in public and is fined $5. Appearing before the judge she stated “I’ve got as much right to smoke as you have. I never hears of this new law, and I don’t want to hear about it. No man shall dictate to me.”

1930 – Illinois state-record minus-35 degrees in Mount Carroll.

1931 – Jazz trumpeter Clyde McCoy records “Sugar Blues” for Columbia Records, sells over 14 million copies internationally.

1939 – Aquatic Park, near Fisherman’s Wharf, in San Francisco dedicated.

1945 – Heavy US air raid on Okinawa, Japan.

1947 – First commercial TV station west of Mississippi opens in Hollywood, California.

1953 – 1953 NFL Draft: Harry Babcock from the University of Georgia is the first pick by the San Francisco 49ers.

1959 – Buddy Holly makes his last recording in his New York City apartment alone with an acoustic guitar. He tapes five songs including “Peggy Sue” and “Crying, Waiting, Hoping”, which were embellished, overdubbed, and released posthumously by Coral Records.

1960 – 10th NBA All-Star Game, Convention Hall, Philadelphia, Pa.: East beats West 135-115. Philadelphia Warriors center Wilt Chamberlain is named Most Valuable Player.

1965 – United States launches TIROS 9 weather satellite.

1969 – Roy Campanella and Stan Musial elected to Baseball Hall of Fame.

1970 – First commercial Boeing 747 flight, Pan American Airways, flies from New York City to London in 6½ hours.

1973 – In a landmark decision the US Supreme Court legalizes most abortions in Roe v. Wade. Authoring the majority opinion, Justice Harry Blackmun states that the criminalization of abortion does not have “roots in the English common law tradition.”

1982 – 75% of North America is covered by snow.

1989 – Bill Walsh retires after winning his third Super Bowl as head coach of the San Francisco 49ers.

1997 – Space shuttle Atlantis successfully returns to Earth.

2002 – Kmart Corp becomes the largest retailer in United States history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

2016 – Winter storm conditions stranded 500 motorists for 24 hours in Somerset and Bedford counties, about 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, on the Pennsylvania turnpike.

2018 – Netflix becomes the largest digital media and entertainment company in the world worth $100 billion.

2018 – US government ends three-day shutdown after an agreement in Congress to extend funding.

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