On this day in US History, 1780 Patriots under General Francis Marion surprise loyalist forces on Black Mingo Creek, South Carolina. 1892 At Mansfield, Pennsylvania, the first nighttime football game is played when Mansfield Teachers College faces Wyoming Seminary beneath twenty electric lights. 1915 In the first transcontinental demonstration of radiotelephone, speech is transmitted from New York City to Honolulu. 1957 Baseball’s New York Giants play their final game at the Polo Grounds, losing to the Pittsburgh Pirates 9–1, before moving to San Francisco the next season. 2009 The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 778 points in one day during one of the worst financial crises since the Great Depression.
Posted on: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 12:52:00 +0000
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