03/29/2024
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This Day In History1633 – Massachusetts Bay Colony forms its first government.

1840 – First Hawaiian constitution proclaimed.

1860 – Telegraph line between LA & SF opens.

1873 – First women’s prison run by women opens at Indiana Reformatory Institute.

1896 – Dow Jones starts reporting an average of selected industrial stocks.

1918 – American soldier Alvin York single-handedly attacks German gun nest, killing at least 25 and capturing 132 Germans.

1933 – Coit Tower dedicated in San Francisco as a monument to firefighters.

1934 – Bruno Hauptmann is indicted for murder of Charles Lindbergh’s son.

1945 – US President Harry Truman announced atomic bomb secret shared with Britain and Canada.

1945 – Microwave oven patented.

1955 – World’s most powerful aircraft carrier, USS Saratoga, launched.

1961 – US Constellation crashes at Richmond, Virginia, 74 die.

1973 – OPEC meets with oil companies to discuss revision of 1971 Tehran agreement and oil prices; negotiations fail.

1974 – Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it was the largest bank failure in the history of the United States.

1981 – US President Ronald Reagan greets predecessors Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon before sending them to Egypt for Anwar Sadat’s funeral.

1988 – Fire in Seattle’s Space Needle causes evacuation, $2,000 damage.

1990 – US doctors Joseph E. Murray & E. Donnall Thomas win Nobel Prize.

2001 – U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.

2017 – Wildfires ignite in Northern California wine country, killing at least 41 over the next week, with 20,000 evacuated.

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