03/28/2024
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1848 – Niagara Falls stops flowing for 30 hours due to an ice jam in the river upstream.

1912 – Captain Robert Falcon Scott storm bound in a tent near South Pole, makes last entry in his diary “the end cannot be far”

1929 – President Herbert Hoover has the 1st telephone installed on the desk at the Oval Office’s in the White House.

1932 – Jack Benny debuts on radio, on Ed Sullivan’s New York interview program.

1940 – American boxer Joe Louis KOs Johnny Paycheck in 2 rounds to retain the heavyweight boxing title.

1945 – World War II: Last day of V-1 flying bomb attacks on England.

1951 – American citizens Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are convicted and sentenced to death for conspiracy to commit espionage for the Soviet Union.

1959 – “Some Like it Hot”, American comedy film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack Lemon, premieres at the Lowe’s Capital Theatre, NYC.

1962 – Jack Paar’s final appearance on “The Tonight Show.”

1971 – 1st Lt William L.Calley, Jr. found guilty in My Lai (Vietnam) massacre.

1973 – US troops leave Vietnam, 9 years after Tonkin Resolution.

1978 – Variety TV show “The Carol Burnett Show” last airs on CBS in the US, having won 25 Emmy Awards.

1982 – 44th NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship: North Carolina beats Georgetown, 63-62; Tar Heels’ future Hall of Fame small forward James Worthy named Tournament Most Outstanding Player.

1987 – WrestleMania III: Pontiac Silverdome, Pontiac, Michigan (93,173): Hulk Hogan successfully defends the WWF Heavyweight title against Andre the Giant.

1989 – Michael Milken, junk bond king, indicted in NY for racketeering.

1997 – 1st game at Turner Field, Atlanta Braves beats Yanks 2-0 (exhibition)

2005 – “We Belong Together” single is released by Mariah Carey (Grammy Awards for Best R&B song and best Female R&B Vocal Performance 2006, Billboard Song of the Year 2005)

2017 – Ivanka Trump (35) assumes an unpaid position as Senior Advisor to the President, Donald Trump (her father)

2020 – US infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci warns America may see between 100,000 – 200,000 deaths from COVID-19.

2022 – President Joe Biden signs the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act into law, making lynching a federal hate crime after over 200 attempts to pass similar legislation since 1900.

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