this day in history On March 15 1493 Christopher Columbus returned to Spain after his first New World voyage. 1892 The automatic ballot voting machine is unveiled in New York State. 1913 President Woodrow Wilson holds the first open presidential news conference. 1937 The first blood bank is established at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. 1948 Sir Laurence Olivier was on the cover of LIFE magazine for his starring role in Shakespeare’s Hamlet. 1954 CBS television debuts its “Morning Show” with Walter Cronkite and Jack Paar. 1956 The musical My Fair Lady opened on Broadway. 1962 Wilt Chamberlain becomes the first NBA player to score 4000 points in a season. 1968 The United States mint stops the practice of buying and selling gold. 1977 The U.S. House of Representatives begins a 90-day test to determine the feasibility of televising its sessions. 1989 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration decided to impound all fruit imported from Chile after two cyanide-tainted grapes were found in Philadelphia, PA. 1991 Four Los Angeles police officers are charged in the beating of Rodney King. 1998 More than 15,000 ethnic Albanians marched in Yugoslavia to demand independence for Kosovo. 2002 U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell told the Associated Press that the U.S. would stand by a 24-year pledge not to use nuclear arms against states that dont have them.
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