03/27/2024
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1755 – 1st steam engine in America installed, to pump water from a mine.

1850 – 1st US $20 gold piece issued.

1894 – Coca-Cola is sold in bottle for the first time in a candy store in Vicksburg, Mississippi.

1904 – Andrew Carnegie establishes Carnegie Hero Fund.

1912 – Girl Guides (Girl Scouts) forms in Savannah, by Juliette Gordon Low.

1928 – In California, the St. Francis Dam fails, killing over 600 people.

1933 – FDR conducts his 1st “fireside chat”

1945 – NY is 1st to prohibit discrimination by race & creed in employment.

1947 – US President Harry Truman introduces Truman-doctrine to fight communism.

1951 – Comic strip “Dennis the Menace,” 1st appears in the British comic magazine, The Beano’

1956 – Dow Jones closes above 500 for 1st time (500.24)

1964 – 6th Grammy Awards: Days of Wine & Roses, Barbra Streisand wins 2.

1965 – “Wooly Bully” single released by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs.

1968 – 11th Grammy Awards: “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” by Glen Campbell wins best record.

1980 – Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33 in Chicago.

1986 – 210.25 million shares traded on NY Stock Exchange.

1989 – 15th People’s Choice Awards: Dustin Hoffman & Meryl Streep win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Bill Cosby & Phylicia Rashad win (TV)

1993 – Entertainment Tonight’s 3,00th show.

1998 – “Sound of Music” opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC.

2003 – Elizabeth Smart found after having been missing for 9 months.

2019 – Dozens charged in US college admission scandal by US federal prosecutors, including actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman

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