1868 – Metropolitan Life Insurance Company forms.
1883 – 1st telephone call between NY & Chicago.
1910 – 83 degrees highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March.
1920 – 1st US coast guard station established (Morehead City, NC)
1932 – 1st US radio broadcast from a moving train (Belle Baker WABC, from Maryland)
1937 – National Gallery of Art established by Congress.
1947 – John D. Rockefeller, Jr. donates NYC East River site to the UN.
1955 – 1st seagoing oil drill rig placed in service.
1961 – NY Senate approves $55 million for a baseball stadium at Flushing Meadows.
1974 – 30th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: North Carolina State beats Marquette, 76-64: Wolfpack first title; first tournament officially designated as a Division I championship.
1977 – Lily Tomlin is the first woman to appear solo in a Broadway show in “Appearing Nitely” (special Tony award 1977)
1982 – US sub Jacksonville collides with a Turkish freighter near Virginia.
1986 – US & Libya clash in Gulf of Sidra.
1989 – Exxon tanker Valdez spills 10.8 million gallons of crude oil in Prince William Sound, near Tatitiek, Alaska.
1989 – NBC rebroadcasts Mary Martin and Cyril Ritchard’s 1960 version of “Peter Pan” for the first time since 1973.
1994 – “Carousel” opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 53 performances.
2002 – 74th Academy Awards: “A Beautiful Mind”, Denzel Washington and Halle Berry win; Berry is first woman of color to win the Best Actress award.
2015 – NASA’s Opportunity rover becomes the first to compete in a Martian marathon.
2017 – President Donald Trump and the Republican party are forced to pull their attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act (‘Obamacare’} after internal opposition.
2019 – 2-time American League MVP Mike Trout signs the biggest contract in North American history, a $426.5 million, 12 year extension with the Los Angeles Angels.
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