| In 1785 New York State began the gradual process of eliminating slavery by prohibiting the importation of slaves for sale. In 1799 the State ensured the eventual freedom of children born to slaves, and by 1827 all slaves owned by New York residents were freed. The law freed all children born to slave women after July 4, 1799, but only after at least two decades of forced indenture. Males became free at age 28, and females at age 25. Until then, they were tied to the service of the mother's master. |
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| Pallas is an asteroid located in the asteroid belt region of the solar system and was the second to be discovered. It was found and named by astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers on March 28, 1802. Pallas is the third most massive object in the asteroid belt and is estimated to contain 7% of the region's entire mass. |  |
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| In 1832 President Andrew Jackson had vetoed an act to re-charter the Bank of the United States. Jackson moved to withdraw federal deposits from that bank. Clay then challenged Jackson on the bank issue with a Senate resolution seeking a paper the president had read to his cabinet. When Jackson refused, Clay introduced the censure resolution. After a ten-week debate, the Senate voted 26 to 20 to censure the president for assuming power not conferred by the Constitution. Jackson responded with a lengthy protest denying the validity of the Senate's action. |
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| The Salvation Army, an evangelical Christian social service organization known for its military structures and use of military idiom, was founded by William and Catherine Booth in 1865 to improve the spiritual and material condition of London's poor. In 1885, under the leadership of Captains William Evans, Hannah Simpson Evans, and Edwin Gay, the Salvation Army came to Chicago. Upon arrival, the small corps of Salvationists organized parades and meetings intended to attract both converts and detractors. |
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| The first World Championships in this sport, five years before the first modern olympics, was held in London, with 7 athletes representing 6 countries. |
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| In 1898, the Supreme Court granted citizenship to Wong Kim Ark. Wong Kim Ark, born in San Francisco, was the son of Chinese nationals who were not eligible for U.S. citizenship and who ultimately returned to China. In 1895, Wong Kim Ark returned to San Francisco from a voyage to China and was denied entry on the ground that he was not a U.S. citizen. He sued, and his case made its way eventually to the Supreme Court. |
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| Fabre studied intensively aeroplane and propeller designs. He patented a system of flotation devices, which he used when he succeeded in taking off from the surface of the Etang de Berre on March 28th, 1910. On that day, he completed four consecutive perfect flights, the longest about 600 meters. Henri Fabre was soon contacted by Glenn Curtiss and Gabriel Voisin who used his invention to develop their own seaplanes. |
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| The city has been there since the 7th century BCE, when it was known as Byzantium. It was renamed Constantinople around 330 CE, in honor of conquering Roman Emperor Constantine the Great, and remained so (under various rulers) until 1453 when the Ottoman Empire took control and made the glittering port city the capital of their empire, calling it Istanbul (from a Greek phrase already common on the streets, meaning simply "in the city") - however, the great city's name was not formally changed to Constantinople until March 28, 1930! Angora was an area surrounding Ankara Province (vilayet) in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire prior to 1930. |
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| In the years that followed his successful liquid fueded rocket, Goddard he continued developing his rockets--controlling their motion by gyroscopes, steering them with small vanes thrust into their exhaust jet, and building larger and faster rockets. These were tested in test stands on the ground and sometimes also in free flight, mostly at a rocket lab he established in Roswell, New Mexico. |  |
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| With muted trumpets and full clarinet tones, its distinct sound earned it a large and dedicated following. Always the friendly, Southern gentleman, Kemp was well-liked by everyone and treated his musicians well. Bandmembers often referred to Kemp's orchestra as a “fraternity.” They had superb soloists who could play hot when needed -- so they cut sides like the ballad "Alone" (written for the Marx Brothers movie A Night at the Opera), sung by Maxine Gray, but they could turn around two months later and deliver "The Music Goes 'Round and 'Round" sung in a hotter style by Saxie Dowell and featuring just enough virtuosity to remind listeners what superb jazz players they were. |
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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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| A tremendous growth in the sport after World War II led to the founding of the U. S. Women's Curling Association in 1947, the first U. S. national championships in 1957, and the organization of the U. S. Curling Association, a federation of 125 clubs, in 1958. |
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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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| "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. That's when Beatlemania took hold and this became a US hit. |
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| In this series, Burr portrayed Chief of Detectives Robert Ironside, crippled by an assassin's bullet in the pilot episode. Although urged to retire, Ironside worked to ferret out criminals--this time from the prosecution's side. The show was pure crime drama common to the late sixties, mixed with "hip" dialogue and situations relevant to the time. |  |
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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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| When Chamberlain left the NBA in 1973, he had captured two championships — in 1967 with the Philadelphia 76ers and in 1972 with Los Angeles. Upon retirement, Wilt held numerous records: he scored 50 or more points 118 times, 60 or more points 32 times, and is the NBA's all-time rebounding leader with 23,924. Although his feats were often credited to his tremendous size, Chamberlain was a true natural who possessed exceptional speed, agility, stamina and strength. His legendary battles with Bill Russell will forever remain etched into the NBA's glorious history. |
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| Vocalist Bjorn Skifs was already well known in Sweden when he and EMI Records record producer, Bengst Palmers, formed Blue Swede. Since they had no compositions of their own, the sextet covered B.J. Thomas's 1969 hit single "Hooked On A Feeling." After a successful testing in domestic charts, it was issued in the USA and reached number 1 - doing likewise in Canada, Australia and Holland. Following another US Top 10 entry (with a revival of the Association's "Never My Love"), a medley of Deep Purple's "Hush" and the Hollies' "I'm Alive", and other subsequent releases, were confined mainly to Scandinavia. |
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| In 1974, a fat cigar-chomping man carrying a cocktail streaked nude across the set of the show, forcing NBC censors to black out the lower half of the screen; the streaker was arrested and later released, said Carson, for "lack of evidence." |
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| In 1979, a nuclear accident occured at Unit 2 of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA. Caused by human and mechanical errors, a cooling system malfunctioned and permitted a partial meltdown of the reactor's core. Efforts to re-establish cooling of the reactor took several days. No evacuation was ordered, but 100,000 people fled. Disaster was avoided, although some radioactivity leaked into the air. It was the worst U.S. nuclear accident to date, but no radiation injuries were identified. On July 21, 1982, a video camera inspected the damage to the core and revealed a large amount of uranium had spilled and melted to the bottom of the pressure vessel. |
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| Until this came out, rappers always used existing songs as the basis for the music they would rap over. They usually took Disco or Soul records and looped the beats to extend the breaks. Debbie Harry's rap in this was nothing special, but it was the first rap in a song that had its own original music. |  |
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| In 1982 the spacecraft was renamed the International Cometary Explorer (ICE) and, through a complex series of Earth and Moon flybys, was sent on a trajectory to intercept comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner. The primary objective of the ICE mission was to study the interaction between the solar wind and the cometary atmosphere. The ICE made particle, field and plasma measurements as it passed through the plasma tail of 21P/Giacobini-Zinner, then continued on to pass between the Sun and comet 1P/Halley in late March 1986 as other missions (Giotto, VEGA, Planet-A, MS-T5) were also observing that comet. |
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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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| Michael Jordan dropped 69 points and 18 rebounds against the Cleveland Cavaliers on March 28, 1990, which is his career-high in points scored in a single game. It was the 4th time he scores 60 points in a game. |  |
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| President George Bush awarded this medal “In recognition of “Jesse Owens’ athletic achievements and humanitarian contributions to public service, civil rights and international goodwill.” |  |
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1797 Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire patents
a washing machine
1799 New York State abolished slavery
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1802 Heinrich Olbers discovers 2nd asteroid -
later called Pallas
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1834 Senate censure Pres Jackson for taking fed
deposits from Bank of US
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1865 Outdoor advertising legislation was enacted
in New York State. The law banned “painting on stones, rocks and trees.”
1885 US Salvation Army officially organized
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1891 First world weightlifting championship held
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1898 The Supreme Court ruled that a child
born in the United States to immigrants was a U.S. citizen
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1899 William Fleming received a patent for a player
piano using electricity
1910 First seaplane, takes off from water at Martigues
France (Henri Fabre)
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1922 Bradley A. Fiske of Washington, D.C. patented
a microfilm reading device
1930 Constantinople & Angora change to Istanbul
& Ankara
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1935 Goddard uses gyroscopes to control a rocket
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1939 Hal Kemp and his orchestra recorded "Three
Little Fishies" for Victor Records
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1941 Gossip columnist Louella Parsons hosted "Hollywood Premiere"
for the first time on CBS radio
who appeared in dramatized stories
1953 "The Doggie in the Window" by Patti
Page topped the charts
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1957 First National Curling Championship held
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1959 "Venus" by Frankie Avalon topped
the charts
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1963 AFL's New York Titans become the New York
Jets
1964 "She Loves You" by the Beatles
topped the charts
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1967 Raymond Burr starred in a TV movie titled
"Ironside"
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1970 "Bridge Over Troubled Water" by
Simon & Garfunkel topped the charts
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1972 Wilt Chamberlain plays his last pro basketball
game
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1974 The group, Blue Swede, received a gold record
for the single, "Hooked on a Feeling"
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1974 A streaker ran onto the set of
"The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson"
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1979 Nuclear accident
occurrs at The Three-mile Island plant near Middletown, PA
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1981 "Rapture" by Blondie topped the
charts
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1982 First NCAA Women's Basketball Championship:
Louisiana Tech beats Cheney 76-62
1986 International Cometary Explorer measures
solar wind ahead of Halley's Comet
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1987 "Lean on Me" by Club Nouveau topped
the charts
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1990 Michael Jordan scores 69 points, 4th time
he scores 60 points in a game
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1990 President Bush awards Jesse Owens the Congressional
Gold Medal
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