03/29/2024
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This Day In History

1831 – 1st US-built locomotive to pull a passenger train makes 1st run.
1844 – University of Notre Dame receives its charter in Indiana.
1863 – 1st US newspaper printed on wood-pulp paper, Boston Morning Journal.
1865 – Fort Fisher, NC, falls to Union troops.
1889 – The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is incorporated in Atlanta, Georgia.
1892 – Basketball rules published in Triangle Magazine, Mass.
1907 – Gold dental inlays first described by William Taggart, who invented them.
1919 – 2 million gallons of molasses flood Boston, Mass, drowning 21.
1927 – The Tennessee Supreme Court overturns (on a technicality) John T. Scopes’ guilty verdict for teaching evolution – but the law itself remains in force.
1934 – Babe Ruth signs a 1934 contract for $35,000.
1951 – Supreme Court rule “clear & present danger” of incitement to not riot is not protected speech & can be a cause for arrest.
1957 – Brooklyn Dodgers sign a new 3 year lease for Ebbets Field.
1964 – Teamsters negotiate 1st national labor contract.
1974 – “Happy Days” begins an 11 year run on ABC.
1981 – “Hill Street Blues” premieres on NBC-TV.
1990 – AT&T experiences long distance problem due to a computer glitch.
1994 – Lawrence Taylor announces his retirement from the NFL.
2001 – Wikipedia, a free Wiki content encyclopedia, goes online.
2009 – US Airways Flight 1549 makes an emergency landing into the Hudson River shortly after takeoff fro LaGuardia Airport in New York City.  All passengers and crew members survive.

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