03/28/2024
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This Day In History1602 – Cape Cod discovered by English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold.

1672 – 1st copyright law enacted in Massachusetts.

1817 – Opening of the first private mental hospital in the United States, the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason (now Friends Hospital) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1862 – US Department of Agriculture created.

1905 – Las Vegas, Nevada founded.

1911 – Supreme Court dissolves Standard Oil (Sherman Antitrust Act).

1928 – Mickey Mouse made his 1st ever appearance in silent film “Plane Crazy”.

1930 – Ellen Church becomes 1st female airline stewardess aboard a United flight from San Francisco to Cheyenne.

1940 – McDonald’s open its first restaurant in San Bernardino, California.

1951 – AT&T is 1st US company to have one million stockholders.

1953 – Heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano KOs Jersey Joe Walcott in Chicago.

1957 – 18,000 people at Madison Square Garden-Billy Graham launched a crusade.

1960 – Taxes took 25% of earnings in US.

1963 – Peter, Paul & Mary win their 1st Grammy (If I Had a Hammer).

1972 – Assassination attempt on US Governor George Wallace of Alabama by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, Maryland.

1981 – “Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan’s Island” airs.

1983 – Madison Hotel (Boston) destroyed by implosion.

1991 – US President George H.W. Bush takes Queen Elizabeth to Oakland A’s-Baltimore Oriole game.

2007 – 42nd Academy of Country Music Awards: Kenny Chesney, Carrie Underwood & Brad Paisley win.

2010 – Jessica Watson at age 16 becomes the youngest person to sail solo, non-stop and unassisted around the world.

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