03/29/2024
Spread the love

1819 – 320 ton Savannah becomes 1st steamship to cross any ocean (Atlantic)

1840 – Samuel Morse patents his telegraph.

1864 – Battle of Kinston, North Carolina and Battle of Abingdon, Virginia.

1909 – 1st balloon honeymoon (Roger Burham & Eleanor Waring)

1921 – 11.5″ of rainfall, Circle, Montana (state record)

1926 – Mordecai W. Johnson becomes 1st black president of Howard University.

1936 – Jesse Owens of US sets 100 meter record at 10.2.

1944 – Congress charters Central Intelligence Agency.

1947 – US President Harry Truman vetoes Taft-Hartley Act.

1949 – Central Intelligence Agency Act passes.

1956 – At Detroit’s Briggs Stadium, Mickey Mantle hits 2 Billy Hoeft pitches into right center field bleachers (no one else hits i there)

1960 – “The Huckleberry Hound Show” by Hanna-Barbera becomes the first animated programme to win an Emmy.

1963 – US & USSR agree to set up “Hot Line”

1969 – 200,000 attend Newport ’69’, the largest ever pop concert in Northridge, California. Jimi Hendrix gets $120,000 to appear.

1982 – US Open Men’s Golf, Pebble Beach GL: Tom Watson wins his only US Open by 2 strokes from Jack Nicklaus.

1988 – Supreme Court upholds a law that made it illegal for private clubs to discriminate against women and minorities.

1994 – Former NFL running back, broadcaster and actor O.J. Simpson arraigned on murder of Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman.

2011 – Betty Dukes v. Walmart class action lawsuit on alleged employee gender discrimination in pay and promotion policies is decided in a 5-4 decision, ruling that the class should not be certified in its current form.

2017 – Tiger Woods checks into a clinic to manage his pain medication and sleep disorder, following his arrest for driving under the influence.

2018 – US President Donald Trump signs Executive Order ending family separation at the border for illegal immigrants.

About Author