03/29/2024
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This Day In History
1759 – 1st American life insurance company incorporated, Philadelphia.
1794 – Robert Forsythe, a U.S. Marshal is killed in Augusta, Georgia when trying to serve court papers, the first US marshal to die while carrying out his duties.
1849 – Elizabeth Blackwell becomes 1st woman in US to earn medical degree.
1873 – 1st livestock market newspaper published, Drover’s Journal, Chicago.
1913 – 1st sedan-type car (Hudson) goes on display at 13th Auto Show (NYC)
1922 – Insulin first used on humans to treat diabetes – Leonard Thompson, 14, of Canada.
1935 – Amelia Earhart flies from Honolulu to Oakland, California (non-stop, of course)
1949 – Snowfall 1st recorded in Los Angeles.
1953 – J. Edgar Hoover declines 6 figure offer to become president of International Boxing Club.
1963 – Beatles release “Please Please Me” & “Ask Me Why”
1971 – Tigers ace reliever John Hiller, 27, suffers a heart attack, but later makes a remarkable comeback to record 38 saves.
1973 – Trial of Watergate burglars begins in Washington, D.C.
1982 – Atlanta, Georgia’s temperature goes below zero F.
1989 – Kindergarten student caught with a loaded handgun at Bronx school.
1990 – Bobby Knight becomes basketball’s Big10 winningest coach (229).
1993 – Independent presidential candidate Ross Perot publicly returns to politics.
1996 – Space Shuttle STS 72 (Endeavour 10), launches into space.
1998 – 24th People’s Choice Award: Harrison Ford & Julie Roberts win (Dramatic Motion Picture) and Tim Allen & Oprah Winfrey win (TV).
2007 – Author J.K. Rowling finishes the 7th and last Harry Potter novel in room 552 of the Bamoral Hotel, Edinburgh.
2015 – 72nd Golden Globes: Boyhood, Eddie Redmayne, & Julianne Moore win.

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