03/29/2024
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This Day In History1807 – Robert Fulton begins operating his steamboat.

1833 – 1st newsboy hired (Barney Flaherty, 10 year old-NY Sun).

1862 – General Lee invades the North with 50,000 Confederate troops during US Civil war.

1882 – 1st large-scale test of Thomas Edison’s light bulb – lighting of NY’s Pearl Street Station.

1893 – English author Beatrix Potter first writes the story of Peter Rabbit for a 5 year old boy.

1918 – US troops land in Archangel, Russia, stay 10 months.

1923 – Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USS Shenandoah.

1933 – 1st airplane to exceed 300 mph, Jr. Wendell, Glenview, II.

1944 – US 1st Army frees Namen.

1950 – First helicopter rescue of American pilot behind enemy lines.

1950 – Darlington Raceway is the site of the inaugural Southern 500, the first 500-mile NASCAR race.

1957 – Ford Motor Co. introduces Edsel.

1966 – Houston Oilers holds Denver Broncos to no 1st downs winning 45-7.

1972 – US swimmer Mark Spitz becomes 1st athlete to win 7 Olympic gold medals.

1972 – “The Price is Right” – US’s longest running game show debuts on CBS.

1981 – Newscaster David Brinkley is released by NBC.

1991 – Panel of 8 baseball experts vote to drop asterisk next to Roger Maris HR record & determine an official no hitter must go at least 9 innings.

1998 – Google is formally incorporated by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University.

2002 – Before a U.S. Congressional panel, Doris Roberts testifies that age discrimination is prevalent in Hollywood.

2016 – Mother Teresa canonized by Pope Francis in a ceremony at the Vatican.

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