03/29/2024
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This Day In History1787 – First free school in NYC (African Free School) opens.

1800 – John Adams becomes the first US president to live in the White House.

1834 – First published reference to poker (as Mississippi riverboat game)

1859 – The current Cape Lookout, North Carolina, lighthouse was lit for the first time. Its first-order Fresnel lens can be seen for about 19 miles in good conditions.

1913 – Less than a week after the US non-intervention promise, President Woodrow Wilson demands that Mexican dictator Huerta resigns.

1917 – In WW I, the 1st US soldiers are killed in combat.

1931 – Dupont introduces synthetic rubber.

1940 – 1st US air raid shelter, Fleetwood, Pa.

1945 – First issue of Ebony magazine published by John H Johnson.

1947 – “Medium & The Telephone” closes at Barrymore NYC after 211 performances.

1950 – Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill US President Harry Truman at Blair House.

1966 – Sandy Koufax becomes 1st 3-time Cy Young Award winner.

1967 – “Cool Hand Luke”, starring Paul Newman, George Kennedy, and Strother Martin, is released.

1977 – US President Jimmy Carter raises the minimum wage from $2.30 to $3.35 an hour, effective from 1st January 1981.

1979 – US Federal government made $1.5 billion loan to Chrysler.

1981 – 1st Class US Mail raised from 18 cents to 20 cents.

1982 – Honda becomes the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the United States with the opening of their factory in Marysville, Ohio. The Honda Accord is the first car produced there.

1991 – Three faculty, and one staff member of the department of physics and astronomy, were killed, along with one administrator, when physics graduate student Gang Lu went on a shooting rampage at the University of Iowa.

2004 – “That’s What I Love About Sunday” single released by Craig Morgan (Billboard Song of the Year 2005)

2012 – Google’s Gmail becomes the world’s most popular email service.

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