03/27/2024
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This Day In History1835 – James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the New York Herald (price 1 cent)

1837 – John Deere creates the first steel plow.

1851 – Dr. John Gorrie patents a “refrigeration machine”

1896 – Samuel Pierpont Langley flies his unpiloted Number 5 aircraft using a catapult launch from a boat on the Potomac River, USA. The aircraft travels almost 3/4 of a mile – ten times further than any previous heavier-than-air flying machine.

1906 – “Temporary” permit to erect overhead wires on Market Street, San Francisco.

1929 – New York to San Francisco footrace begins.

1940 – Pulitzer prize awarded to John Steinbeck for “The Grapes of Wrath”

1941 – At California’s March Field, Bob Hope performs his first USO show.

1957 – Pulitzer prize awarded to John F. Kennedy (Profiles in Courage)

1960 – US President Eisenhower signs Civil Rights Act of 1960.

1968 – Giants reliever Lindy McDaniel sets NL record of 225th consecutive errorless game (108 chances consecutively since June 16, 1964)

1974 – Smallest attendance at Philadelphia’s Veterans Stadium (4,149)

1975 – 3 people die in tornado that strikes Omaha, Nebraska.

1985 – 17th Space Shuttle Mission (51-B)-Challenger 7 lands at Edwards AFB.

1987 – American televangelist Jim Bakker and Rich Dortch dismissed from Assemblies of God after revelations of an alleged rape of a church secretary.

1994 – US House of Representatives passes the Federal Assault Weapons Ban.

1996 – The body of former CIA director William Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he disappeared.

2002 – Entrepreneur Elon Musk founds SpaceX.

2011 – The US Department of Labor states that 244,000 jobs were created in April, with 235,000 added in February and 221,000 in March, but unemployment continues to grow, reaching 9%.

2013 – Wal-Mart becomes the largest company by revenue on the Fortune 500 list.

2013 – The US Senate passes a bill enabling taxing of online sales.

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