On March 22, 1893, the first women’s college basketball game 
was played at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.

The winning team earned a gold and white banner.

On March 18, 1852, in New York City, Henry Wells and William
G. Fargo join with several other investors to launch their
namesake business, today one of the world’s largest banks.

The discovery of gold in California in 1849 prompted a huge
spike in the demand for cross-country shipping. Wells and
Fargo decided to take advantage of these great opportunities.

After later mergers, the Wells Fargo Bank American
Trust Company—shortened to the Wells Fargo Bank
in 1962, became, and has remained, one of the biggest
banking institutions in the United States.      

   

The most famous dog to emerge from the war was Rin Tin Tin,
an abandoned puppy of German war dogs found in France in
1918 and taken to the United States, where he made his film
debut in the 1922 silent film The Man from Hell’s River.        
As the first bona fide animal movie star, Rin Tin Tin made the
little-known German Shepherd breed famous across the
country.

On March 12, 1933, eight days after his inauguration, President
Franklin D. Roosevelt gives his first national radio address—or
“fireside chat”—broadcast directly from the White House.

Roosevelt began that first address simply: “I want to talk for a
few minutes with the people of the United States about banking.”

The banks would be reopening the next day, Roosevelt said, and
he thanked the public for their “fortitude and good temper”
during the “banking holiday.”

On March 11, 1989, "Cops," a documentary-style television
series that follows police officers and sheriff’s deputies as
they go about their jobs, debuted on Fox. "Cops" went on
to become one of the longest-running shows in television
history. It went off the air in 2020.

The show, which was created by John Langley and Malcolm
Barbour, was a pioneer in reality television. Crews with
camcorders followed law enforcement officers on patrol,
tracking down suspects and making arrests.

With its widely recognized theme song, “Bad Boys” by the
reggae group Inner Circle, "Cops" had spawned numerous
imitators in addition to parody shows.

John Russell Langley (June 1, 1943 – June 26, 2021)