10 Timeline Memories:
1.1776] Musket rumble: Americans begin shelling British troops in Boston. Hand me my musket…
2.1877] Heads it’s Hayes, tails it’s Tilden: Rutherford B. Hayes is declared the winner of the 1876 presidential election by Congress despite Samuel Tilden winning the popular vote…
3.1903] Martha Washington slept here: The Martha Washington Hotel opens for business in New York City becoming the first hotel exclusively for women…
4.1917] Viva Puerto Rico: Citizens of Puerto Rico are granted U.S. citizenship with the enactment of the Jones Act…
5.1923] Time after time: TIME hits the newsstands for the first time…
6.1933] Fay Wray sighting: The original “King Kong” world premieres at the Roxy and Radio City Music Hall theaters in Manhattan…
7.1939] Take your time Bay State: The Massachusetts legislature votes to ratify the Bill of Rights to the U.S. Constitution. These 10 amendments had gone into effect 147 years earlier but why rush???
8.1951] B-ball All-Stars: The first NBA All-Star game is played at Boston Garden as Easy Ed McCauley of the Celtics leads the East to a 111-94 victory over the West. A crowd of 10,094 were on hand to witness the game created by league publicity man Haskell Cohen and Celtic founder Walter Brown…1962] Wilt Chamberlain drops 100 points on (who else?) the Knicks…
9.1969] Espo ‘69: Boston Bruins center Phil Esposito becomes the first NHL player to score 100 or more points in a season…
10.2005] The toll rises: The number of U.S. military deaths in Iraq reach 1,500. Sad to say that today that toll is over 4,300…For more on March 2:
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