03/29/2024
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This Day In History1661 – Isaac Newton admitted as a student to Trinity College, Cambridge.

1846 – Telegraph line opens between Philadelphia & Baltimore.

1861 – Federal marshals seize arms & gunpowder at DuPont works, Delaware.

1884 – William Sherman refuses Republican presidential nomination saying, “I will not accept if nominated & will not serve if elected.”

1913 – US marines invade Cuba (2rd time).

1917 – 10 million US men begin registering for draft in WW I.

1925 – 29th US Golf Open: Willie Macfarlane shoots a 291 at Worcester CC, Mass.

1933 – Gold standard abolished.

1940 – A synthetic rubber tire exhibited Akron, Ohio by Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company.

1945 – USA, UK, USSR, France declare supreme authority over Germany.

1953 – 1st sporting event televised nationally-Walcott vs Charles boxing.

1960 – “George Goble Show” last airs on CBS-TV.

1965 – “Wooly Bully” by Sam the Sham & Pharaohs hits #2.

1968 – 12:16AM PST-Sirhan Sirhan shoots Bobby Kennedy, who dies next day.

1981 – AIDS Epidemic, officially begins when US Centers for Disease Control reports on pneumonia affecting five homosexual men in Los Angeles.

1989 – 23rd Music City News Country Awards: Ricky Van Shelton & Randy Travis win.

1991 – Space Shuttle STS 40 (Columbia 12) launched.

2001 – US Senator Jim Jeffords leaves the Republican Party, an act which shifts control of the United States Senate from the Republican to the Democratic Party.

2001 – Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall on the upper-Texas coastline as a strong tropical storm and dumps large amounts of rain over Houston. The storm caused $5.5 billion in damages, making Allison the costliest tropical storm in US history.

2012 – American gubernatorial recall election is held in Wisconsin. Governor Scott Walker wins and becomes the first governor to survive a recall election.

2013 – The first article based on NSA leaked documents by Edward Snowden are published by the Guardian Newspaper in the UK.

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