03/29/2024
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This Day In History1805 – Lewis & Clark expedition reaches the Pacific Ocean, first European Americans to cross the west.

1863 – US President Abraham Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg address beginning; “Four score & seven years ago…”

1872 – E.D. Barbour of Boston is awarded the first U.S. patent for the first ‘calculator’, an adding machine capable of printing totals and subtotals.

1893 – 1st newspaper color supplement (NY World)

1916 – Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures (the company later became one of the most successful independent filmmakers)

1923 – The Oklahoma State Senate ousts Governor Walton for anti-Ku Klux Klan measures.

1944 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling $14 billion USD in war bonds to help pay for the war debt.

1953 – US Supreme Court rules (7-2) baseball is a sport not a business.

1959 – “Rocky & His Friends” debuts on ABC.

1959 – Ford Motors cancels its poorly received Edsel model.

1965 – Kellogg’s Pop Tarts pastries created.

1969 – Apollo 12’s Charles Conrad & Alan Bean become 3rd & 4th humans on the Moon.

1973 – New York stock market takes sharpest drop in 19 years.

1975 – “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” based on book by Ken Kesey, directed by Milos Forman and starring Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher is released (Academy Awards Best Pictures 1976)

1981 – U.S. Steel agrees to pay $6.3 million for Marathon Oil.

1985 – In the largest civil verdict in US history, Pennzoil wins $10.53 billion judgement against Texaco.

1997 – McCaughey septuplets born to Bobbi McCaughey in Des Moines, Iowa.  First set of septuplets to survive infancy.

1998 – Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton.

2010 – “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1” the 7th film based on the books by J.K. Rowling is released worldwide.

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