03/29/2024
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1877 – Russia launches a surprise night attack that overruns Turkish forces at Kars, Armenia.

1913 – The first ship sails through the Panama Canal, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

1927 – Tornado hits Washington, D.C.

1928 – Notre Dame finally loses a football game at home after 23 years.

1933 – United States recognizes Soviet Union, opens trade.

1940 – Green Bay Packers become 1st NFL team to travel by plane.

1956 – Syracuse fullback Jim Brown, scores NCAA record of 43 points (vs Colgate)

1962 – US President JFK dedicates Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C.

1967 – Surveyor 6 becomes 1st man-made object to lift off Moon.

1968 – “Heidi Game”, NBC cuts to show “Heidi” and misses Raider’s rally to beat Jets, 43-32.

1970 – Douglas Engelbart receives the patent for the first computer mouse.

1973 – US President Richard Nixon tells AP “…people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook”

1982 – Dale Murphy wins NL MVP.

1985 – 25th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Darrell Waltrip wins.

1989 – Bret Saberhagen signs record $2,966,667 per year KC Royal contract.

1992 – Dateline NBC airs a demonstration show General Motors trucks, blowing up on impact, later revealed NBC rigged test.

2003 – Britney Spears, at 21 years old, becomes the youngest singer to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

2015 – Actor Charlie Sheen confirms that he is HIV-positive.

2021 – Record number of Americans, over 100,000, died of drug overdoses April 2020 – April 2021 according to the CDC.

2021 – US capitol rioter QAnon Shaman {Jacob Shansley} sentenced to three years in prison by a federal court.

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