1868 – US Congress abolishes manufacturer’s tax.
1894 – Coca-Cola is sold in bottles 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.
1917 – A German submarine sinks an unarmed US merchant ship, the ‘Algonquin’ on the same day that US President Woodrow Wilson gives executive order to arm US merchant ships.
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’
1965 – “Wooly Bully” single released by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs.
1969 – 11th Grammy Awards: “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” by Glen Campbell wins best record.
1970 – US lowers voting age from 21 to 18.
1974 – Ted Bundy victim Donna Manson disappears from Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington (body never found)
1980 – Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33 in Chicago.
1993 – Entertainment Tonight’s 3,000 show.
1995 – 42nd ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament: #7 Wake Forest beats #4 North Carolina, 82-80 (OT)
1998 – “Sound of Music” opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC.
2006 – 53rd ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament: #1 Duke beats #7 Boston College, 78-76.
2019 – Dozens charged in US college admission scandal by US federal prosecutors, including actresses Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman.
2020 – US President Trump bans travel with 26 European countries, though not the UK, due to COVID-19 (UK and Ireland added a day later)
2020 – 2020 NCAA men’s basketball tournament is cancelled over concerns of the spread of COVID-19; first time ‘March Madness’ not held since it began in 1939; women’s tournament also cancelled.
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