03/29/2024
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1865 – One-time Methodist Reform Church minister William Booth and his wife Catherine found the East London Christian Mission, now known as the Salvation Army.

1890 – Congress passes Sherman Antitrust Act.

1921 – In boxing’s first million dollar gate ($1.7m) world heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey KOs Frenchman Georges Carpenter in round 4 of his 3rd title defense; crowd of 91,000 at Boyle’s Thirty Acres in Jersey City, New Jersey.

1926 – US Army Air Corps created: Distinguished Flying Cross authorized, to award “heroism or extraordinary achievement while participating in an aerial flight”

1928 – The Jenkins Television Corporation (owned by Charles Jenkins) goes on air with W3XK, the first television broadcasting station in the USA.

1937 – Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan disappear flying over the Pacific Ocean en route to Howland Island. Noonan is declared dead the following year, and Earhart is declared the year after (1939)

1941 – Joe DiMaggio hits a 3-run homer off Boston’s Dick Newsome to pass Willie Keeler’s Major League Baseball-record 44 game hitting streak.

1949 – “Red Barber’s Clubhouse” sports show premieres on CBS (later NBC) TV.

1955 – “Lawrence Welk Show” premieres on ABC.

1962 – Sam Walton opens the first Walmart Store in Rogers, Arkansas.

1964 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs Civil Right Act and Voting Rights Act into law.

1972 – “Fiddler on the Roof” closes at Imperial Theater in New York City after 3,242 performances.

1979 – Susan B. Anthony dollar is issued , 1st US coin to honor a woman.

1986 – Supreme Court upholds affirmative action in 2 rulings.

1991 – Donald Trump proposes to Marla Maples and gives her a 7.5 carat diamond ring.

1994 – US Air DC-9 crash in North Carolina, 37 killed.

2001 – Bush Administration announces that it will seek to let oil companies drill on about 1,500,000 acres of the Gulf of Mexico.

2012 – GlaxoSmithKline settles the largest healthcare fraud case in history for US$3 Billion.

2017 – New Jersey Governor Chris Christie causes uproar by day at the beach during his government’s shutdown of beaches.

2022 – The more contagious COVID-19 omicron subvariant BA.5 dominance in the US, making up 54% of cases according to the CDC.

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