03/29/2024
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This Day In History1781 – Los Angeles is founded by 44 Spanish speaking mestizos in the Bahia de las Fumas (Bay of Smokes)

1807 – Robert Fulton begins operating his steamboat.

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

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

1885 – 1st cafeteria opens (NYC)

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

1923 – NY Yankee Sad Sam Jones no-hits Philadelphia A’s, 2-0.

1940 – CBS begins broadcasting TV as station W2XAB.

1945 – US regains possession of Wake Island from Japan.

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

1951 – NBC extends to become a 61 station coast-to-coast.

1956 – IBM RAMAC 305 is introduced, the first commercial computer that uses magnetic disk storage.

1957 – Ford Motor Co. introduces Edsel.

1961 – Carol Burnette-Richard Hayes Show premieres on CBS radio.

1970 – George Harrison releases “My Sweet Lord” single.

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

1981 – Newscaster David Brinkley is released by NBC.

1986 – 189.42 million shares traded on NY Stock Exchange.

1991 – “Most happy Fella” opens at NY State Theater NYC.

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

2012 – Carpet that can help prevent falls in elderly by warning them after detecting unusual footsteps is developed.

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