03/29/2024
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This Day In History1663 – King Charles II of England grants a charter to Rhode Island.

1693 – NYC authorizes 1st police uniforms in American colonies.

1776 – Col John Nixon gives the 1st public reading of the Declaration of Independence to an assemblage of citizens in Philadelphia.

1800 – Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse gives 1st cowpox vaccination in the US to his son to prevent smallpox.

1879 – Governor Holden of North Carolina declares Caswell County to be in a state of insurrection.

1889 – Wall Street Journal begins publishing.

1932 – Depression low point of Dow Jones Industrial Average, 41.22.

1946 – Baseball grants $5,000 minimum salary.

1947 – Reports are broadcast that a UFO has crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico.

1960 – Fidel Castro ends Havana’s Intl League team, Sugar Kings move to New Jersey.

1963 – US bans all monetary transactions with Cuba.

1972 – US sells grain to USSR for $750 million.

1975 – US President Gerald Ford announced he’ll seek Republican presidential nomination.

1978 – Pioneer-Venus 2 Multi-probe launched to Venus.

1985 – Marge Schott becomes CEO of Cincinnati Reds.

1988 – Stevie Wonder announces he will run for mayor of Detroit in 1992.

1994 – Preliminary trial rules there is enough evidence to try O.J. Simpson.

2011 – Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program.

2015 – The New York Stock Exchange stops trading for nearly four hours due to a technical error.

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