On this day in history..

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Today is Monday, March 29, the 88th day of 2010. There are 277 days left in the year. The Jewish holiday Passover begins at sunset.

In 1638, Swedish colonists settled in present-day Delaware.

 

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1932 - The Ford Motor Co. debuted its V-8 engine.

 

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1853 - Cincinnati became the first U.S. city to pay fire fighters a regular salary

1963 - The Soap operas "General Hospital" and "Doctors" premiered on television.

 

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1968 Martin Luther King Jr, buried in Atlanta GA

 

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1947 Jackie Robinson became the 1st African american in modern major league baseball (Dodgers)

 

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1981 Washington Post's Janet Cooke wins Pulitzer Prize for "Jimmy's World" (later admits story was a hoax and returns prize)

 

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1994 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis operated on for a bleeding ulcer

 

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1965 NFL changes penalty flag from white to bright gold

 

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how about this is also the day that President Lincoln dies after his gunshot wounds from John Wilkes Booth?

 

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1940 1st televised baseball game, WGN-TV, (White Sox vs Cubs exhibition)

 

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1967 Muhammad Ali refuses induction into army & stripped of boxing title

 

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1997 42 million watch "Ellen" admit she is gay

 

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1990 Angela Bowie reveals that ex husband David slept with Mick Jagger


and my oldest son was born Tommy _ May 4 , 1984
Happy Birthday

 

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1997 "Married With Children" final episode on Fox TV

 

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1853 - Cincinnati became the first U.S. city to pay fire fighters a regular salary

1963 - The Soap operas "General Hospital" and "Doctors" premiered on television.

OMG!! that's when i was born...

i remember watching "the doctors" with my mom for years when i was little, then growing up making fun of soaps, NOW i am WATCHING "general hospitol" right this minute! too funny!! hehe..

 

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1967 10,000 demonstrate against war in Vietnam

1976 USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR

 

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1945 Lauren Bacall & Humphrey Bogart wed

1955 WFRV TV channel 5 in Green Bay WI (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting

1980 "Empire Strikes Back" premeires

 

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1968 Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithfull arrested for drug possession

1989 "Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade" premieres

1994 Poison singer Bret Michaels gets into a car crash

 

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1978 "Star Wars" released


1983 "Return of the Jedi" (Star Wars 3) released



1984 Boston Red Sox trade pitcher Dennis Eckersley to Chicago Cubs for Bill Buckner

 

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1969 John & Yoko begin their 2nd bed-in (Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montréal)


1978 1st legal gambling casino opens in Atlantic City

1990 China People's Republic performs nuclear test at Lop Nor People's Rebublic of China