March 29
Today in America's Present Past
1790 | POTUS: President Tyler was born. The first VPOTUS to ascend in succession due to the death of a sitting President.
1799 | Civil Rights: New York passed a gradual abolition law, freeing those born after July 4, 1799.
1806 | Construction was authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road. It connected the Potomac and Ohio Rivers.
1813 | POTUS: President Tyler wed Letitia Christian.
1848 | Entrepreneur John Jacob Astor died.
1819 | Entrepreneur Edwin Drake was born.
1847 | Mexican-American War: General Scott captured Veracruz.
1852 | Ohio mandates a 10-hour work day.
1867 | Congress: Approved the building of the Lincoln Memorial, which did not commence until 1914.
1867 | Baseball Pro Cy Young was born.
1874 | POTUS: Future First Lady Lou Henry Hoover was born.
1878 | Entrepreneur Mark Hopkins, Jr. died.
1882 | Knights of Columbus was chartered.
1888 | Entrepreneur James E. Casey was born.
1916 | Politician Eugene McCarthy was born.
1918 | Entrepreneur Sam Walton was born.
1928 | Yeshiva College was chartered.
1929 | POTUS: President Hoover installed the first telephone on the desk at the Oval Office in the White House. Previously, it was in the hallway to preserve the “dignity” of the Oval.
1932 | William Charette, Medal of Honor recipient, born in Ludington, Michigan. Charette was a Navy Hospital Corpsman during the Korean War.
1943 | WWII: Democrat President Roosevelt began domestic rationing of meat, butter and cheese.
1951 | Cold War: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were convicted and sentenced to death for conspiracy to commit espionage for the Soviet Union.
1957 | Actor Christopher Lambert was born.
1961 | The 23rd Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified.
1973 | Vietnam War: US troops leave Vietnam.
1990 | Politician Lee Atwater died.
2024 | Actor Louis Gossett Jr. died.