03/29/2024
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This Day In History1743 – 1st American town meeting (Boston’s Faneuil Hall)
1794 – Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin machine revolutionizing the cotton industry in the southern US states.
1862 – Battle of New Bern NC: General Burnside conquers New Bern.
1888 – Second largest snowfall in NYC history (27″)
1900 – US currency goes on gold standard after Congress passes the Currency Act.
1907 – By Presidential order, Japanese laborers are excluded from entering the USA.
1913 – John D. Rockefeller gives $100 million to Rockefeller Foundation.
1923 – US President Warren G. Harding becomes 1st president to pay taxes.
1936 – Federal Register, 1st magazine of the US government, publishes 1st issue.
1950 – FBI’s “10 Most Wanted Fugitives” program begins.
1956 – Ampex Corp demonstrates 1st commercial videotape recorder.
1958 – RIAA certifies 1st gold record (Perry Como’s Catch a Falling Star)
1964 – Dallas, Texas; Jack Ruby sentenced to death for Lee Harvey Oswald’s murder.
1971 – Barbra Streisand appears on “The Burt Bacharach Special” on CBS TV.
1980 – Polish airliner crash kills 87 aboard (22 are US amateur boxers)
1983 – OPEC cut oil prices for 1st time in 22 years.
1987 – 13th People’s Choice Awards: Clint Eastwood & Meryl Streep win (Motion Picture) and Bill Cosby & Cybill Shepherd win (TV).
1993 – “Conversation with My Father” closes at Royale NYC after 462 performances.
2015 – 62nd ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament: Notre Dame beats North Carolina, 90-82.
2016 – NASA releases data showing February 2015 warmest month ever recorded globally-1.35C above the long-term average.

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