TODAY IN HISTORY

MARCH 28

1990:Fifty-four years after Jesse Owens silenced Hitler’s claims of racial superiority at the 1936 Olympics, he is posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal. His widow accepts the honor from President George H.W. Bush.

1797: New Hampshire’s Nathaniel Briggs patents a washing machine.

1834: Andrew Jackson becomes the only president censured by the Senate for refusing to turn over documents.