March 24
NATIONAL Chocolate Covered Raisins Day
Today in legal and military [and occasional oddities] history
1883 Long-distance telephone service was inaugurated between Chicago and New York
1941 Donald Duck enlists in the Army, for the first of six war cartoons
1955 Tennessee Williams’ play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof opens at the Morosco Theatre in New York City
1980 ABC’s nightly Iran Hostage crisis program was renamed “Nightline”
1989 The Exxon Valdez oil tanker spills 240,000 barrels of oil in Alaska’s Prince William Sound
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