This day in history.....

March 28th


1797: The first U.S. patent for a washing machine was granted to Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire.

1834: For the first time in history, the U.S. Senate votes to censure a president, declaring that Andrew Jackson inappropriately removed federal deposits from the Bank of the United States.


1930: The ancient Turkish city of Constantinople changes its name to Istanbul.


1941: British writer Virginia Woolf commits suicide by drowning.


1969: In London, Ringo Starr announces that there will be no more public appearances by the Beatles.


1979: A nuclear disaster at the Three Mile Island plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania increases public concerns about the safety of nuclear power.
 
March 29th

1867: The British North America Act establishes the Dominion of Canada, comprising the provinces of Québec, Ontario, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia.


1932: American comedian Jack Benny makes his radio debut.


1961: The 23rd Amendment is ratified, giving residents of Washington, D.C. the right to vote in presidential elections.


1973: The last U.S. troops leave Vietnam, ending U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War.


1974: The Mariner 10 spacecraft, launched by NASA in November, is the first spacecraft to visit Mercury and take close-up pictures of the planet.
 
March 30th


1858: Hyman L. Lipman of Philadelphia patents his idea of attaching an eraser to the top of a lead pencil.


1867: U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward signs a treaty with Russia, purchasing Alaska for $7,200,000; critics dub the deal "Seward's Folly."


1981: President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest as he leaves a Washington, D.C. hotel; drifter John Hinckley, Jr. is promptly arrested for the shooting.

1986: Actor James Cagney, who won Academy Award for his portrayal of George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy, dies at 86.


1999: A jury in Portland, Oregon orders Phillip Morris to pay $81,000,000 to the family of a man who died of lung cancer after smoking Marlboros for four decades. :shrug:
 
April 3rd

1860: The legendary Pony Express begins mail service between Saint Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California.


1882: Jesse James, notorious U.S. bank and train robber, is shot in the back by a member of his own gang seeking to claim reward money.


1936: Bruno Richard Hauptmann, convicted of the 1932 kidnapping and murder of aviator Charles Lindbergh's baby, is executed by electrocution.


1991: The U.N. Security Council passes a cease-fire resolution to end the Persian Gulf War.


1996: Theodore Kaczynski is arrested on charges that he is the Unabomber, an anarchist whose homemade bombs killed three and wounded many others over 17 years.
 
April 4th
1818: Congress approves the U.S. flag with 13 red and white stripes and 20 stars; a star is to be added for each new state.


1850: Los Angeles is incorporated as a city the same year that California is admitted to the United States.


1949: NATO is formed by 12 western democratic nations, including the United States and Great Britain, to safeguard against Soviet aggression.


1964: The Beatles hold the top five spots on Billboard's Hot 100, setting an all-time record.


1968: American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee; in 1969 James Earl Ray pleads guilty to the shooting.
 
April 5th


1614: Pocahontas, daughter of Native American chief Powahatan, marries American colonist John Rolfe in Jamestown, Virginia; the union contributes to peace between the Native Americans and English.


1951: U.S. citizens Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are sentenced to death for spying for the Soviet Union.


1976: American billionaire and famed recluse Howard Hughes dies in Houston, Texas.


1984: Los Angeles Laker Kareem Abdul-Jabbar becomes the all-time highest scorer in the NBA when he scores a record-breaking basket using his signature "sky hook."


1987: The Fox Broadcasting Company makes its prime time television debut with Married…with Children.
 
April 6th

1830: Joseph Smith founds the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, known as the Church of Christ until 1834.


1896: The first modern Olympic Games are held in Athens, Greece.


1909: American explorer Robert Peary, his assistant Matthew Henson, and four Inuit guides are the first recorded people to reach the North Pole.


1917: The U.S. declares war on Germany and enters World War I.
 
April 7th


1919: The Original Dixieland Jazz Band, the first jazz band to record its music, makes its debut in London, England; its song “Tiger Rag” becomes popular.


1940: Educator Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American pictured on a U.S. postage stamp.


1948: The World Health Organization (WHO), an agency of the United Nations dedicated to improving health worldwide, comes into existence.


1949: Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical play South Pacific, opens on Broadway; it wins a Pulitzer Prize the following year.


1980: U.S. president Jimmy Carter breaks off diplomatic relations with Iran during the hostage crisis.


1994: Civil war erupts in Rwanda a day after an airplane, carrying the nation's president, Juvénal Habyarimana, was shot down.
 
April 8th


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1652: Cape Town in South Africa is founded by Jan van Riebeeck as a supply post for the Dutch East India Company.


1973: Spanish painter and sculptor Pablo Picasso dies at his villa in France at age 91.


1974: In Atlanta, Georgia, baseball great Hank Aaron hits his 715th career home run, breaking the record previously held by Babe Ruth.


1990: Ryan White, the U.S. teenager whose battle with AIDS promoted public understanding of the disease, dies at 18.


1992: Yasir Arafat, leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), survives a plane crash in the Sahara Desert; the plane's three crew members perished.
 
April 10th


1790: The first U.S. patent law, protecting inventions against piracy, is approved.


1866: The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) is founded in New York.


1912: The British luxury liner Titanic sets off on its maiden voyage across the Atlantic Ocean; five days later it sinks after hitting an iceberg.


1925: The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is published; it will become one of the most important novels of the 20th century.


1974: Golda Meir, a founder of the state of Israel, announces that she is resigning as prime minister.
 
April 11th


1951: U.S. president Harry Truman relieves General Douglas MacArthur from his commands during the Korean War after the general publicly criticized the administration's war policy.


1970: Apollo 13 blasts off toward the moon; an explosion two days later forces astronauts to abort the mission and make a daring return to earth.


1979: Idi Amin is overthrown as president of Uganda; during his brutal regime, an estimated 300,000 civilians were killed.
 
April 12th


1861: The American Civil War begins when Confederate troops open fire on Union-held Fort Sumter in South Carolina's Charleston Bay.


1945: U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt, recently elected to a record fourth term in office, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage; Vice President Harry Truman is sworn in as president.


1955: The polio vaccine prepared by U.S. physician Jonas E. Salk is released for general use in the United States.


1961: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, aboard Vostok 1, is the first man to travel to space; he makes one orbit of the earth during his 108-minute flight.


1999: A U.S. District Court judge cites President Bill Clinton in contempt of court for lying under oath about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky.
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April 13th


1796: The first elephant brought to the United States arrives from Bengal.


1943: U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.


1964: Sidney Poitier becomes the first African American actor to win an Academy Award, for his performance in Lilies of the Field.


1970: An oxygen tank explodes aboard the U.S. lunar landing mission Apollo 13 as it nears the moon, forcing the astronauts to return to Earth.


1997: Golfer Tiger Woods, 21, becomes the youngest person to win the Masters and the first African American and Asian American champion.
 
April 14th

1775: The first American society for the abolition of slavery is organized by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush in Philadelphia.


1828: American lexicographer Noah Webster publishes the first edition of his dictionary under the title American Dictionary of the English Language.


1865: Confederate malcontent John Wilkes Booth shoots President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.; Lincoln dies early the next morning.


1910: President William Taft starts an American tradition, throwing out the first ball on opening day of the major league baseball season.


1912: The Titanic strikes an iceberg four days into its maiden voyage; over 1,500 passengers drown when the ship sinks early the next morning.
 
April 15th


1865: U.S. president Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous night at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.; Vice President Andrew Johnson is sworn in as president.


1912: The British luxury liner Titanic sinks after colliding with an iceberg; it is among the worst maritime disasters in history, with over 1,500 dead.


1947: Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American in the 20th century to play in a major league baseball game.


1986: In retaliation for the terrorist bombing of a Berlin discotheque, the United States launches an air raid against Libya; nearly 40 people are killed.


1990: The enigmatic Swedish film actress Greta Garbo dies in New York.
 
April 16th


1912: Pilot Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly across the English Channel.


1917: Vladimir Lenin returns to Russia after years of exile to lead the radical socialist Bolshevik party to power during the October Revolution.


1962: Broadcast journalist Walter Cronkite becomes anchor of the CBS Evening News.


1999: The Great One, Wayne Gretzky, announces his retirement from professional hockey.
 
May 5th


1821: Former French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte dies in exile on the island of St. Helena.

1921: Chanel No. 5 perfume, created by perfumer Ernst Beaux for Coco Chanel, is launched.


1925: Biology teacher John Scopes is arrested for teaching the theory of evolution, which is outlawed in Tennessee public schools; he is later convicted in the so-called "Monkey Trial."


1961: Astronaut Alan Shepard makes a 15-minute suborbital flight, becoming the first American to travel in space.


1981: Bobby Sands is the first of 10 Irish Republican Army hunger strikers to die in a Belfast prison; they were protesting their treatment as criminals rather than political prisoners.
 
May 7th



1847: The American Medical Association, a federation of state and territorial medical associations, is founded in Philadelphia.


1915: The British ship Lusitania is torpedoed by a German submarine off the Ireland coast; 1,198 people are killed, increasing sentiment in the United States to join World War I.


1945: German Nazi forces surrender unconditionally to U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower's army in Reims, France; the European phase of World War II officially ends the next day.


1960: Leonid Brezhnev becomes president of the Soviet Union.


1994: The masterpiece The Scream, by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, is recovered undamaged nearly three months after it was stolen.
 
Mare said:
March 1st in history.....

1803: Ohio enters the Union as the 17th state.


1872: President Ulysses S Grant signs a bill creating Yellowstone National Park, making it the first national park in the United States.


1875: The United States Congress passes the Civil Rights Act of 1875, guaranteeing African Americans equal access to public facilities.


1961: President John F. Kennedy creates the Peace Corps by executive order.


1972: Wilt Chamberlain becomes the first NBA basketball player to score 30,000 points.
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