11/04/2024
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This Day In History archive

1915 – An estimated 25,000 supporters in a women’s suffrage march on New York’s Fifth Avenue led by Dr. Anna Shaw, president of the National Woman Suffrage Association, and Carrie Chapman Catt, founder of the League of Women Voters.

1922 – Channing Pollock’s play “Fool” premieres in New York City.

1923 – Legendary New York Yankees slugger Babe Ruth makes a postseason exhibition appearance in a rival New York Giants uniform as New York beats the Baltimore Orioles 9-0 in a benefit game for former Giants owner John Day.

1933 – John Dillinger and his gang rob Central National Bank in Greencastle, Indiana and take $75,000.

1935 – Chicago Cubs catcher Gabby Hartnett selected National League Most Valuable Player.

1941 – Walt Disney’s animated film “Dumbo” released.

1942 – All 12 passengers and crewmen aboard an American Airlines DC-3 airliner are killed when it is struck by an Army Air Forces bomber near Palm Springs, California. Among the victims is Ralph Rainger who composed “Thanks for the Memory.”

1945 – Baseball player Jackie Robinson signs a contract with the Montreal Royals, the minor league farm team of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

1952 – Charlie Chaplin’s “Limelight,” starring himself and Claire Bloom, with an appearance by Buster Keaton, premieres in New York City. The film is not released in Los Angeles until 1972, winning Chaplin his only competitive Academy Award for original score.

1954 – Britain, France and the United States agree to end occupation of Germany following World War II.

1962 – Adlai Stevenson speaks at the United Nations about the Cuban missile crisis.

1973 – 19-year-old tennis star Chris Evert retains her Women’s Tennis Association Tour Championship at Boca Raton, Florida, beating Nancy Richey Gunter 6-3, 6-3 in the final.

1973 – President Richard Nixon agrees to turn over White House tape recordings to Judge John Sirica of what is thought to relate to the Watergate investigation.

1981 – United States national debt hits $1 trillion.

1989 – Cleveland Browns quarterback Bernie Kosar sets a record with a 97-yard touchdown pass to Gary Slaughter against the Chicago Bears.

1995 – “The MacNeil-Lehrer Report” becomes “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer” upon Robert McNeil’s retirement. The show currently is known as “PBS NewsHour” on PBS.

1997 – Dow Jones Industrial Average drops 186.88 points.

2001 – Apple releases the iPod.

2015 – Adele releases her single “Hello.” It becomes the first song with more than a million downloads in the first week.

2019 – Google research lab claims it has achieved Quantum Supremacy, performing calculations in 3 minutes that would take a supercomputer 10,000 years.

2023 – “Superfog” conditions near New Orleans cause a motorway pile-up involving 158 vehicles, causing seven deaths.

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