03/28/2024
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This Day In History

1691 – Massachusetts Bay Colony granted new charter.

 

1787 – US constitution adopted by Philadelphia convention.

 

1872 – Phillip W. Pratt patents his sprinkler system for extinguishing fires.

 

1897 – 3rd US Golf Open: Joe Lloyd shoots a 162 at Chicago GC in Wheaton, Ill.

 

1908 – Thomas Selfridge becomes first fatality of powered flight.

 

1917 – Honus Wagner, retires at 43, Pirates retire his #33.

 

1931 – 1st LP record demonstrated (RCA Victor, NYC), venture failed.

 

1943 – Load of “ammunition in transit” explodes at Norfolk Naval Air Station.

 

1947 – Jackie Robinson is named Rookie of Year by Sporting News.

 

1955 – “Ankles Aweigh” closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 176 performances.

 

1961 – “Car 54, Where are You?” premieres on US TV.

 

1962 – US space officials announce selection of 9 new astronauts.

 

1965 – CBS premiere of WWII sitcom “Hogan Heroes”

 

1975 – Rollout of 1st space shuttle orbiter Enterprise (OV-101)

 

1978 – Anwar Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the Camp David Accords, frameworks for peace in the Middle East and between Egypt and Israel.

 

1987 – Pope John Paul II arrives in San Francisco, meets with AIDS patients, and embraces an AIDS infected child.

 

1989 – Hurricane Hugo, kills 85 in Charleston, South Carolina.

 

1992 – US House votes 280-128 to give FCC control of cable TV rates.

 

2001 – Major trading markets in the United States, including the New York Stock Exchange and the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX), reopen for the first time since September 11.

 

2007 – AOL, once the largest ISP in the U.S., officially announces plans to refocus the company as an advertising business and to relocate its corporate headquarters from Dulles, Virginia to New York, New York.

 

2015 – US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports 2015 Northern Hemisphere summer hottest on record.

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