03/29/2024
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This Day In History

1607 – 1st Protestant Episcopal parish in America established, Jamestown.

1768 – 1st medical diploma in America is granted to Dr. John Archer from the College of Philadelphia.

1788 – US Constitution comes into effect when New Hampshire is the 9th state to ratify it.

1821 – African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AMEZ) Church organizes (NYC)

1879 – Frank W. Woolworth opens his 1st successful “F.W. Woolworth Great Five Cent Store” on North Queen Street, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

1904 – The US Republican Party nominates Theodore Roosevelt for President, but not without opposition from those whom he calls ‘malefactors of great wealth’

1933 – 1st Great Lakes-to-Gulf of Mexico barge trip completed, New Orleans.

1939 – NY Yankees announce Lou Gehrig’s retirement after doctors reveal he has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

1945 – US defeat Japanese forces on Okinawa.

1948 – 33 1/3 RPM LP record introduced and 78’s planned to be phased out (Dr. Peter Goldmark-Columbia Records)

1955 – Johnny Cash debuts Top 10 country song “Cry! Cry! Cry!”

1964 – Beckwith arrested for murder of Medgar Evers, found guilty 30 years later.

1966 – “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”, directed by Mike Nichols and based on the 1962 play of the same name, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, is released (Academy Awards Best Actress 1967)

1971 – 71st US Golf Open: Lee Trevino shoots a 280 at Merion GC in Ardmore PA.

1977 – Former White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman enters prison.

1982 – John Hinckley found not guilty of 1981 attempted assassination of President Reagan by reason of insanity.

1989 – Supreme Court rules ok to burn US flag as a political expression.

1990 – US House of Representatives votes 254-177 to stop US flag burning, doesn’t pass.

2002 – Lennox Lewis retains boxing’s WBC world Heavyweight crown with an eight round knockout over Mike Tyson.

2015 – 115th US Golf Open: Jordan Spieth shoots a 275 at Chambers Bay, Washington.  At 21, youngest winner since 1923.

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