1883 – First telephone call between New York and Chicago.
1900 – New York City Mayor Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground “Rapid Transit Railroad” that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
1910 – 83 degrees, highest temperature recorded, in Cleveland, Ohio in March.
1920 – First US Coast Guard air station established in Morehead City, North Carolina.
1930 – First religious services telecast in United States on W2XBS in New York City.
1937 – National Gallery of Art established by Congress.
1945 – Allied generals Dwight D. Eisenhower, Bernard Montgomery and Omar Bradley discuss advance in Germany.
1947 – John D. Rockefeller Jr. donates East River site in New York City to the United Nations.
1955 – First seagoing oil drill rig placed in service.
1961 – New York Senate approved $55 million for a baseball stadium at Flushing Meadows.
1973 – San Francisco 49ers president Lou Spadia proposes the NFL expand to 30 teams.
1979 – Columbia flown on carrier aircraft lands at Kennedy Space Center.
1980 – ABC’s nightly Iran Hostage crisis program renamed “Nightline.”
1986 – United States and Libya clash in Gulf of Sidra.
1989 – Exxon tanker Valdez spills 10.8 million gallons of crude oil in Prince William Sound near Tatitek, Alaska.
1998 – Jonesboro massacre: Two students, ages 11 and 13, fire upon teachers and students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Five people are dead and 10 are wounded.
2005 – United States version of “The Office”, created by Ricky Gervals and Stephen Merchant, developed by Greg Daniels, starring Steve Carell and John Krasinski, premieres on NBC.
2015 – NASA’s Opportunity rover becomes the first to complete a Martian marathon.
2019 – 2-time American League MVP Mike Trout signs the biggest contract in North America sports history, a $426.5 million, 12-year extension with the Los Angeles Angels.
2023 – Supercell storm produces powerful EF-4 tornado in the Mississippi Delta, which stays on the ground for more than an hour and over 170 miles, killing 25 people.
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