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Marketplace Datebook for Thursday, March 27, 2014

From the Marketplace Datebook, here’s a look at what’s coming up Thursday:  

  • In Washington, the Labor Department releases its final fourth-quarter gross domestic product report.

  • President Obama continues his spring trip with a visit to Vatican City where he’s scheduled to meet with His Holiness Pope Francis.

  • The National Association of Realtors releases its February pending home sales index.

  • And speaking of homes, Graceland, home to Elvis Presley, was declared a national historic landmark eight years ago.

  • The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee discusses “Strengthening the Federal Student Loan Program for Borrowers.”

  • On March 27, 1998, the FDA approved Viagra.

  • Lastly, physicist and Nobel Laureate Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen was born on March 27, 1845. While working with electromagnetic radiation he took a picture of his wife’s hand revealing her bones. Fortunately, they weren’t broken. Voila, the first X-ray!

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