03/29/2024
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This Day In History1635—Religious dissident Roger Williams banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony.

1701—Collegiate School of Connecticut (Yale University) chartered in New Haven.

1776—Mission Dolores founded by San Francisco Bay.

1837—Steamboat “Home” sinks off Okracoke, NC killing 100.

1837—Meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.

1855—Joshua Stoddard of Worchester, Massachusetts, patents first college.

1865—First US underground pipeline for carrying oil is laid in Pennsylvania.

1872—Aaron Montgomery started his mail-order business.

1888—Washington Monument opens for public admittance.

1915—Woodrow Wilson becomes 1st US President to attend a World Series game.

1926—NBC (National Broadcasting Corporation) forms.

1936—Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity to Los Angeles.

1938—Aaron Copland’s & Eugene Loring’s ballet “Billy the Kid” premieres in Chicago.

1946—First electric blanket manufactured: sold for $39.50.

1947—First telephone conversation between a moving car & a plane.

1959—Lee Harvey Oswald arrives in Southampton, England.

1961—US members of communist party obliged to report themselves to police.

1965—Beatles “Yesterday” single goes #1 and stays #1 for 4 weeks.

1969—Supremes release “Someday We’ll Be Together”

1974—Frank Robinson became 1st Black baseball manager (Cleveland Indians)

1976—“Robber Bridegroom” opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 145 performances.

1980—1st consumer use of home banking by computer by United American Bank in Knoxville, Tn.

1986—Senate convicted US District Judge Harry E. Claiborne making him 5th federal official to be removed from office through impeachment.

1997—NC’s Dean Smith winningest college basketball coach retires.

2007—The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at an all-time high.

2014—Gatwick, Heathrow and JFK airports enhance screening for the Ebola virus

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