03/29/2024
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1866 – Howard University founded (Washington, D.C.)

1888 – Willard Bundy patents timecard clock.

1914 – US State Department starts requiring photographs for passports.

1919 – 1st municipally owned airport in US opens (Tucson, Arizona)

1923 – Garrett Morgan patents his traffic signal design, an important development in automobile safety.

1931 – Commercial teletype service begins (AT&T)

1943 – US forces land on Tarawa & Makin Atoll in Gilbert Island.

1952 – George Axelrod’s “Seven Year Itch” premieres in NYC.

1962 – USSR agrees to remove bombers from Cuba, & US lifts blockade.

1967 – At 11 AM, Census Clock at Department of Commerce ticks past 200 million.

1974 – Rangers’ Jeff Burroughs wins AL MVP.

1974 – The US files antitrust suit to break up AT&T.

1975 – Ronald Reagan announces candidacy for Republican nomination for US President.

1979 – US’s 1st artificial blood transfusion occurs at University of Minnesota Hospital.

1984 – McDonald’s makes its 50 billionth hamburger.

1984 – Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released.

1993 – Savings and Loan scandal: The United States Senate Ethics Committee issues a stern censure of California Senator Alan Cranston for his “dealings” with savings-and-loan executive Charles Keating.

2001 – US President George W. Bush dedicates the US Department of Justice headquarters the Robert F. Kennedy Justice Building, on what would have been his 75th birthday.

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