03/27/2024
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This Day In History1664 – 4 British ships to drive Dutch out of NY, arrive in Boston.

1764 – James Otis publishes views on taxation without representation.

1829 – American William Austin Burt patents “typographer” (typewriter)

1872 – African American inventor Elijah McCoy is granted a patent for lubricators for steam-engine.

1880 – 1st commercial hydroelectric power plant begins, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

1904 – Ice cream cone created during St. Louis World Fair – the 1st cone reputedly by Charles E. Menches.

1925 – NY Yankee Lou Gehrig hits his 1st of 23 career grand slammers.

1937 – Isolation of pituitary hormone announced (Yale University)

1944 – US troops occupy Pisa, Italy.

1947 – 1st (US Navy) air squadron of jets, Quonset Point, Rhode Island.

1959 – US Vice President Richard Nixon begins visit to USSR.

1965 – Dick Stuart homers in a major league record 23rd different park.

1973 – US President Richard Nixon refuses to release Watergate tapes of conversations in the White House relevant to the Watergate investigation.

1980 – Billy Carter admits to being paid by Libya.

1982 – FCC approves AM stereo radio, KTSA San Antonio goes stereo.

1984 – Vanessa Williams, 1st African American Miss America, resigns due to posing nude.

1989 – FOX-TV tops ABC, NBC & CBS for 1st time (America’s Most Wanted)

1994 – Space shuttle STS-65: Columbia 17, lands after record 14 days, 55 minutes.

2000 – 87th Tour de France: no winner (Lance Armstrong disqualified)

2015 – Supreme Court rejects Bill Cosby’s petition against a civil case of his alleged sexual of 15-year old girl at the Playboy Mansion in 1974.

2017 – 146th British Golf Open Championship: American Jordan Spieth shoots a 268 to win at the Royal Birkdale Golf Club, Southport.

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