03/28/2024
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This Day In History1796 – Bethel African Methodist Church of Philadelphia is 1st US-African church.

1797 – Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire patents a washing machine.

1834 – Senate censure President Jackson for taking fed deposits from Bank of US.

1845 – Mexico drops diplomatic relations with US.

1866 – 1st ambulance goes into service.

1881 – “Greatest Show on Earth” was formed by PT Barnum & James A Bailey.

1920 – Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 affects the Great Lakes region and Deep South states.

1924 – WGN-AM in Chicago, IL begins radio transmissions.

1935 – Robert Goddard uses gyroscopes to control a rocket.

1946 – Cold War: The United States State Department releases the Acheson-Lilienthal Report, outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power.

1963 – AFL’s NY Titan’s become the NY Jets.

1972 – Wilt Chamberlain plays his last pro basketball game.

1977 – 49th Academy Awards: “Rocky”, Peter Finch & Faye Dunaway win.

1982 – 12th Easter Seal Telethon raises $19,500,000.

1990 – Michael Jordan scores 69 points, 4th time he scores 60 points in a game.

1990 – US President George H.W. Bush awards Jesse Owen the Congressional Gold Medal.

2000 – A Murray County, Georgia, school bus is hit by a CSX freight train (3 children die in the accident)

2013 – Pope Francis becomes the first Pope to wash the feet of women in the Maundy Thursday service.

2017 – US confirms likely it is behind the air strike in Mosul, Iraq that led to collapse of a building that killed more than 100 civilians.

2017 – US President Donald Trump signs Energy Independence executive order undoing Obama climate-control measures.

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