03/29/2024
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This Day In History1777 – Leonard Norcross patents a submarine diving suit.

1789 – Mrs. Alexander Hamilton serves ice cream for dessert to Washington.

1865 – President Andrew Johnson proclaims reconstruction of confederate states.

1866 – US House of Representatives passes 14th Amendment (Civil Rights)

1888 – US Congress creates Department of Labor.

1910 – Pilot Charles Hamilton makes 1st 1-day round-trip from NY to Philadelphia.

1920 – Post Office says children could not be sent by parcel post.

1930 – 1st Nudist Colony opens.

1942 – FDR creates Office of War with Elmer Davis as head.

1948 – Babe Ruth’s final farewell at Yankee Stadium, he dies August 16th.

1957 – Mayflower II from Plymouth, England, reaches Plymouth, Mass.

1960 – “Alley-Oop by Dyna-Sores peaks at #59.

1966 – Supreme Court’s Miranda decision; suspects must be informed of rights.

1980 – Billy Joel’s “Glass Houses” hits #1.

1989 – Jerry Lee Lewis gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

1990 – Boeing 767 sets nonstop commercial flight, Seattle to Narobi Kenya.

1997 – Jurors in Oklahoma City bombing trial sentence Timothy McVeigh to death.

2005 – A jury in Santa Maria, California acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo at his Neverland Ranch.

2012 – San Francisco Giants’ Matt Cain pitches first perfect game in the franchise’s history against the Houston Astros.

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