03/29/2024
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This Day In History1665 – NY approves new code guaranteeing Protestants religious rights.

1779 – US Army Corps of Engineers established (1st time).

1789 – Benjamin Banneker and Pierre Charles L’Enfant begin to lay out Washington, DC.

1823 – 1st normal school in US opens, Concord Academy, Concord, Vt.

1850 – Woman’s Medical College of Penn (1st female medical school).

1865 – General William T. Sherman’s Union forces occupies Fayetteville, NC.

1927 – 1st golden gloves tournament.

1958 – American B-47 accidentally drops nuclear bomb 15,000 ft. on a family home in Mars Bluff, South Carolina; creates crater 75 ft.
across, bomb without its nuclear capsule.

1959 – “Raisin in the Sun”, 1st Broadway play by a black woman, opens.

1967 – 14th ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament: North Carolina beats Duke, 82-73.

1968 – Otis Redding posthumously receives gold record for “Dock of the Bay”

1981 – Johnny Mize and Rube Foster elected to baseball Hall of Fame.

1982 – US boycotts Libyan crude oil.

1983 – 9th People’s Choice Awards: Burt Reynolds, Jane Fonda & Katharine Hepburn win (Motion Picture) and Tom Selleck, Linda Evans & Loretta Swit win (TV).

1986 – NFL adopts instant replay rule.

1886 – 187.27 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange.

1991 – Monica Seles ends Steffi Graf’s streak of 186 weeks ranked as #1.

1995 – Sinn Fein party leader, Gerry Adams, arrives in US.

2001 – 48th ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament: #3 Duke beats #6 North Carolina, 79-53.

2012 – 59th ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament: #17 Florida State beats #4 North Carolina, 85-82.

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