03/27/2024
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This Day In History1639 – Cambridge College, Massachusetts, renamed Harvard for clergyman John Harvard.

1677 – Massachusetts gains title to Maine for $6,000.

1852 – Uncle Sam cartoon figure made its debut in the New York Lantern weekly.

1884 – US adopts Standard Time.

1911 – Ivan Caryll’s musical “Pink Lady” premieres in NYC.

1915 – Dodgers manager Wilbert Robinson tries to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane, but the pilot substitutes a grapefruit.

1928 – Rudolph Friml’s musical “Three Musketeers” premieres in NYC.

1938 – World News Roundup is broadcast for the first time on CBS Radio in the United States.

1950 – General Motors reports net earnings of $656,434,232 (record).

1956 – “The Searchers” American western film directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne and Natalie Wood is released.

1960 – NFL’s Chicago Cardinals moves to St. Louis.

1960 – White Sox unveil new road uniforms with players’ names above number.

1970 – Digital Equipment Corp introduces PDP-11 minicomputer.

1980 – Ford Motor Co found innocent in death of 3 women in a fiery Pinto.

1982 – TV drama “T.J. Hooker” premieres on US’s ABC network starring William Shatner.

1986 – Microsoft has its initial public offering.

1991 – Exxon pays $1-billion dollars in fines & cleanup of Valdez oil spill.

2004 – Luciano Pavarotti performs in his last opera at New York Metropolitan Opera’s “Tosca”.

2005 – Bob Igar is named CEO of Walt Disney International, succeeding Michael Eisner.

2012 – Encyclopedia Britannica announces that it will no longer publish printed versions of it encyclopedia.

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