March 19

U.S. Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of the Adamson Act, a federal law that established an 8-hour workday, with overtime pay, for interstate railway workers.  Congress passed the law a year earlier to avert a nationwide rail strike - 1917

In an effort to block massive layoffs and end a strike, New York City moves to condemn and seize Fifth Avenue Coach, the largest privately owned bus company in the world - 1962 

Three workers are killed, five injured during a test of the Space Shuttle Columbia - 1981

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