| Jefferson assumed the duties of secretary of state in New York City, where the federal government is located. At first he worked cordially with Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, helping to reduce Southern opposition to Hamilton's plan for federal assumption of state debts in return for the selection of a site on the Potomac River for the proposed capital city. |  |
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| Stanley traveled to Zanzibar and outfitted an expedition with the best of everything, requiring no fewer than 200 porters. He located Livingstone on November 10, 1871, in Ujiji near Lake Tanganyika in present-day Tanzania, and greeted him (at least according to his own journal) with the now famous, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" |  |
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| It apparently all started over a pig. In the fall of 1878, Randolph McCoy sued Floyd Hatfield for stealing his hog. The local judge convened a jury evenly divided between Hatfields and McCoys. The court ruled against McCoy. Between 1880 and 1891, the feud claimed more than a dozen members of the two families, becoming headline news around the country and compelling the governors of both Kentucky and West Virginia to call up the National Guard to restore order after the disappearance of dozens of bounty hunters sent to calm the bloodlust. The Hatfields claimed more lives than the McCoys did by the time order had been restored. The Supreme Court ruled that the Hatfields allegedly involved in the execution of the three McCoy boys in 1882 should be extradited to Kentucky for trial (which resulted in one hanging and three life sentences). Devil Anse, fearful that he might be extradited for trial, sold his lucrative acreage and moved away, thus ending the feud. |
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| The creation of the Massachusetts Investors' Trust in Boston, Massachusetts, heralded the arrival of the modern mutual fund in 1924. The fund went public in 1928, eventually spawning the mutual fund firm known today as MFS Investment Management. State Street Investors' Trust was the custodian of the Massachusetts Investors' Trust. |
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| The program was “Man’s first flight around the world,” on KDKA in Pittsburgh, PA. Pioneer broadcaster, writer and lecturer. He became one of the first war correspondents during World War I and covered the exploits of Lawrence of Arabia. His broadcast career began in March 1925 at KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He narrated the first aerial circumnavigation of the earth. |
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| When Parks started Stop the Music in 1948 on radio, his show was put opposite the successful Fred Allen Show. In less than a year, Veteran Allen had dropped from No. 2 in the ratings to No. 38. Fred Allen quit radio , muttering: "When people can get listeners by giving away three iceboxes instead of two, this is a silly business anyway." |
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| Her first hit, "Confess," came that same year and made her the first pop artist to overdub harmony vocals onto her own lead. Page gained her first million-seller in 1950 for "With My Eyes Wide Open I'm Dreaming," which cashed in on the novelty effect of overdubbing (the added touch came with listing it as "the Patti Page Quartet"). Also in 1950, "All My Love" became her first number one hit and spent several weeks at the top. That same year produced the biggest hit of her career, "The Tennessee Waltz." Notched at number one for months, it eventually became one of the best-selling singles of all time and prompted no less than six Top 40 covers during the following year. During 1952-1953, Patti Page scored two more huge hits with "I Went to Your Wedding" and "The Doggie in the Window," both of which spent more than two months at number one. |
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| This live Playhouse 90 episode dramatized the life of celebrated Washington party-giver Perle Mesta, who had earlier served as the inspiration for the 1950 Irving Berlin Broadway musical “Call Me Madam.” The wife of prominent steel manufacturer and political adviser George Mesta (Robert Lowery, Perle (played as an adult by Shirley Booth) rises to prominence in the WW2 years by throwing lavish parties in which people who otherwise wouldn't have given one another the time of day were gently forced to commisserate like ladies and gentlemen. In recognition of her social achievements, Perle is ultimately appointed Minister to Luxembourg by President Harry Truman. Prominent in the supporting cast is gossip columnist Hedda Hopper, in rare dramatic role as Maizie Weldon. |
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| "Venus" was the first of two US #1 singles by the former trumpeter. The other was "Why." It was the first US Top 10 hit that Avalon sang without holding his nose. He held his honker on earlier hits "Dede Dinah"(#7) and "Ginger Bread"(#9). |  |
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| During the 1940s and 1950s, he worked in advertising, public relations and television production in New York City. He purchased the Cleveland Browns in 1961 for $4 million, investing only $250,000 of his own money (he borrowed $2.7 million and found partners for the rest). |  |
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| The band had returned to Liverpool from Hamburg, Germany, where they had been playing at the Star-Club for up to eight hours a night, every night. Their stage show had been through a lot of changes and some in the audience thought they were watching a German band. From 1961 to 1963 The Beatles made 292 appearances at the club. |  |
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| On March 21, 1962, a two-year old female black bear was taken aboard a B-58 bomber out of Edwards Air Force Base in California, flown up to 35,000 feet at a supersonic speed of 850 miles per hour, and ejected from the bomber in a specially made capsule. She landed safely, and became the first living creature to survive a parachute jump from a plane flying faster than sound. |
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| Roberts won 20 games six straight years, from 1950 to 1955, with league highs in wins for four straight, starting in 1952, when he went 28-7. Six times he led the NL in games started, and five times in complete games and innings pitched. He once pitched 28 straight complete games. |  |
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| By decision of US Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, the penitentiary was closed for good on March 21, 1963. It was closed because it was far more expensive to operate than other prisons, and the bay was being polluted by the sewage from the approximately 250 inmates and 60 Bureau of Prisons families on the island. The United States Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois, a new, traditional land-bound prison opened that same year to serve as a replacement for Alcatraz. |
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| "She Loves You" popularized the phrase "yeah, yeah, yeah." Paul McCartney's dad wanted them to sing "yes, yes, yes" instead because he thought it sounded more dignified. It was an instant hit in the England, but not in America, where it was released on Swan records, the only US label that would take it. Swan put it out in September 1963, but while The Beatles were huge in England, they were still no big deal in America until February 1964. |
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| On Sunday, March 21, about 3,200 marchers set out for Montgomery, walking 12 miles a day and sleeping in fields. By the time they reached the capitol on Thursday, March 25, they were 25,000-strong. Less than five months after the last of the three marches, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965--the best possible redress of grievances. |  |
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| Ranger 9 was designed to achieve a lunar impact trajectory and to transmit high-resolution photographs of the lunar surface during the final minutes of flight up to impact. The spacecraft carried six television vidicon cameras, 2 wide angle (channel F, cameras A and B) and 4 narrow angle (channel P) to accomplish these objectives. |  |
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| One of the two American League expansion teams announces its nickname. The Kansas City franchise, now known as the "Royals," will begin play in 1969. Kansas City's last major league franchise, the Athletics, moved to Oakland after the 1967 season. |
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| Paul Simon wrote this about providing comfort to a person in need. It started as a modest Gospel hymn but became more dramatic as he put it together. This was one of the few songs to top the US and UK charts at the same time. It was #1 in the US for 6 weeks, #1 in the UK for 3. In 1971, this won 5 Grammys: Song Of The Year, Record Of The Year, Best Contemporary Song, Best Engineered Record, and Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists. |
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| J.R. Ewing, played by Larry Hagman, was the main villain and character on the hit American television series Dallas. J.R. was a wealthy, greedy, and amoral oil baron who was constantly planning schemes to benefit himself personally. J.R. is best known for the two episodes originally aired in 1980, "A House Divided" and "Who Done It?". These two episodes became famous when the audience witnessed J.R. being shot by an unknown assailant. After the first part was aired in the Spring, the audience had to wait on this cliffhanger until the Fall. |
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| The band released two more albums in the late 1970s, but it wasn't until “Hi Infidelity” was released in 1981 that REO Speedwagon had its first No. 1 record. The album also produced a series of hit singles that included "Keep On Loving You," "Take It On the Run," "Don't Let Him Go" and "In Your Letter." The album exemplified the band's change in its musical direction as it began moving from hard rock to power ballads, and produced more mainstream rock. The band continued to release hit albums such as “Good Trouble” in 1982 and “Wheels Are Turnin'“ in 1985. Both albums peaked at No. 7. |
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| Unsportsmanlike conduct would also by called for any prolonged, excessive, or premeditated celebration by individual players or a group of players. This is usually referred to as the "Mark Gastineau Rule" because a major reason why this change was made was to stop him from performing his signature "Sack Dance" every time after he sacked an opposing quarterback. |
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| On March 26, 1981, the city council adopted legislation introduced by then-council member Henry J. Stern on December 18, 1980, which designated this area as Strawberry Fields. Ground breaking ceremony was in March 21, 1984. Yoko Ono contributed $500,000 to redesign and renovate Strawberry Fields, and an equivalent amount for an ongoing maintenance endowment. |  |
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| Club Nouveau formed in Sacramento in 1986, including Jay King, Denzil Foster, Thomas McElroy, Samuelle Pratter, and Valerie Watson. King was the creative force behind the hit "Rumours" by the Timex Social Club in 1986, and formed King Jay Records for Club Nouveau. They made some good disco-flavored and funk tunes, and had four consecutive hits in 1986 and 1987: "Jealousy," "Situation #9," a cover of Bill Withers' "Lean on Me," and "Why You Treat Me So Bad." The last two both reached the number-two spot on the R&B charts. |
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| Williams’ 1991 sophomore set “The Comfort Zone” was a star-maker; it spawned another R&B chart-topper in "Running Back to You," but the real story was the ballad "Save the Best for Last," a ubiquitous across-the-board smash that became Williams' first number one hit on the pop charts. The title track solidified Williams' growing reputation for smooth, sexy adult pop, and the album went on to sell over two million copies. |
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| In 1999, a balloon achieved the first non-stop round-the-world balloon flight. After 20 days of flight, the experimental Breitling Orbiter 3 balloon, flown by Brian Jones and Bertrand Piccard, touched down in the Egyptian desert. Bertrand is the grandson of the balloon flight pioneer, Auguste Piccard. |  |
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1790 Thomas Jefferson reports to
President Washington in New York as Secretary of State
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1871 Journalist Henry M Stanley begins his famous
expedition to Africa
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1891 The Hatfield - McCoy feud ends
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1909 Moran & MacFarland (US) win Europe's
first 6 day bicycle race (Berlin)
1924 First foreign language course broadcast on
US radio (WJZ, New York NY)
1924 Massachusetts Investors Trust becomes first mutual
fund set up in US
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1925 The voice of Lowell Thomas was first heard
on KDKA in Pittsburgh, PA
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1948 "Stop the Music" with Bert Parks
premieres on ABC radio
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1953 "The Doggie in the Window" by Patti
Page topped the charts
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1953 NBA record 106 fouls & 12 players foul
out (Boston-Syracuse)
1955 Brooklyn Bulletin asks Dodger fans not to
call their team "Bums"
1957 Shirley Booth made her TV acting debut in
"The Hostess with the Mostest"
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1959 "Venus" by Frankie Avalon topped
the charts
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1961 Art Modell purchases Cleveland Browns for
then record ($3,925,000)
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1961 Beatles' first appearance at the Cavern Club
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1962 A bear becomes the first creature to be ejected
at supersonic speeds
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1962 Philadelphia retires pitcher Robin Roberts'
#36
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1963 Alcatraz federal penitentiary in San Francisco
Bay closed
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1964 Beatles' "She Loves You" single
goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
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1965 Martin Luther King Jr begins march from Selma
to Montgomery AL
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1965 US Ranger 9 launched - photographed moon
before lunar impact
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1968 "Royals" chosen as the name of
new Kansas City American League Baseball franchise
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1970 "Bridge Over Troubled Water" by
Simon & Garfunkel topped the charts
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1980 On TV show Dallas, JR is shot
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1981 "Keep On Loving You" by REO Speedwagon
topped the charts
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1983 Only known typo on Time Magazine cover (control=contol),
all recalled
1984 NFL owners passed the infamous anti-celebrating
rule
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1984 Part of Central Park is named Strawberry
Fields honoring John Lennon
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1987 "Lean on Me" by Club Nouveau topped
the charts
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1992 "Save the Best for Last" by Vanessa
Williams topped the charts
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1999 First non-stop Round-the-world balloon flight
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