03/29/2024
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1818 – US Congress approves 1st pensions for government services.

1881 – Barnum & Bailey Circus, travelling as “The Greatest Show on Earth”, debuts at Madison Square Garden, New York City, would last 146 years before closing in 2017.

1911 – North Dakota enacts a hail insurance law.

1922 – WBT-AM in Charlotte, NC begins radio transmissions.

1931 – 1st electric shavers go on sale in US (Schick)

1942 – US President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9102, creating the War Relocation Authority, which was charged with overseeing the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.

1945 – 1,250 bombers attacks Berlin.

1948 – Phillips begin experimental TV broadcasting.

1952 – 1st plastic lens for cataract patients fitted (Philadelphia)

1953 – Boston Braves move to Milwaukee.

1959 – US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs Hawaii statehood bill.

1965 – Poppin’ Fresh Pillsbury Dough Boy introduced.

1966 – Scott Paper begins selling paper dresses for $1.

1977 – US restricts citizens from visiting Cuba, Vietnam, North Korea & Cambodia.

1985 – Capital Cities Communications Inc acquires ABC for $3.5 billion, first transfer of ownership of a TV network.

1987 – Gerber survey find most popular names for newborns are Jessica and Mathew.

1990 – PGA Players Championship, TPC at Sawgrass: Jodie Mudd wins by 1-stroke ahead of runner-up Mark Calcavecchia: winner’s check $270,000.

2003 – FBI agents raid the corporate headquarters of HealthSouth Corporation in Birmingham, Alabama on suspicion of massive corporate fraud led by the company’s top executives.

2014 – US closes the Syrian embassy in Washington & expels all Syrian diplomats.

2020 – US President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau agree to close the US-Canada border, the world’s longest, to non-essential travel to curb COVID-19.

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