03/29/2024
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This Day In History1789—George Washington transmits the proposed Constitutional amendments (The United States Bill of Rights) to the States for ratification.

1861—Former US VP John C. Breckinridge flees Kentucky.

1871—Brigham Young, Mormon leader, arrested for bigamy.

1889—In Colorado, Nicholas Creede strikes it rich in silver during the last great silver boom of the American Old West.

1895—1st cartoon comic strip is printed in a newspaper.

1902—Beatrix Potter’s “The Tale of Peter Rabbit” is published by Frederick Warne & Co. in London.

1916—San Diego Zoo founded.

1919—US President Woodrow Wilson has a stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed.

1933—Eugene O’Neill’s comedy “Ah, Wilderness” premieres in NYC.

1947—Yankee Yogi Berra becomes 1st to pinch hit a World Series homer.

1950—1st strip of Charlie Brown, “Li’l Folks”, later “Peanuts”, by Charles M. Schulz published in 9 papers.

1953—“Comedy in Music (Victor Borge)” opens at John Golden NYC for 849 performances.

1955—“Alfred Hitchcock Presents” premieres on CBS television in the US.

1967—Thurgood Marshall sworn in as 1st black Supreme Court Justice.

1984—Richard Miller becomes 1st (former) FBI agent, charged with espionage.

1988—Mike Tyson wrecks furniture in his Bernardsville, NJ mansion during a domestic dispute.

1990—US Senate votes 90-9 to confirm David Souter’s appointment to Supreme Court.

1994—“Show Boat” opens at Gershwin Theater NYC.

1996—30th CMT Music Awards: Brooks & Dunn, George Strait, and Patty Loveless win.

2006—Five school girls are murdered by Charles Carl Roberts in a shooting at an Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania before Roberts commits suicide.

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