0401 St Anastasius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope

1686 Robinson Crusoe leaves his island after 28 years (as per Defoe)

1732 Benjamin Franklin begins publication of "Poor Richard's Almanack"

1776 Thomas Paine publishes his first "American Crisis" essay

1777 Washington settles his troops at Valley Forge, Pa for the winter

1795 First state appropriation of money for road building, Kentucky

1842 US recognizes independence of Hawaii

1843 Charles Dickens publishes "A Christmas Carol," in England

1854 Allen Wilson of Conn patents sewing machine to sew curving seams

1859 Grading started for Market Street RR

1861 Battle of Black Water

1867 Victims of "Angola Horror" burned to death (Angola NY)

1871 Albert Jones, New York NY, patents corrugated paper

1881 The opera "Herodiade" is produced (Brussels)

1887 Jake Kilrain and Jem Smith fight 106 round bare knuckle draw

1889 Bishop Museum founded in Hawaii

1891 First Negro Catholic priest ordained in US, Charles Uncles, Baltimore

1903 Williamsburg suspension bridge opens between Brooklyn and Manhattan

1904 The Dawson City (Yukon) hockey team starts walking towards Seattle to catch a train to Ottawa to play in the Stanley Cup on Jan 13 1905

1906 Leonid Brezhnev Russian leader of the Communist Party was born

1907 239 workers died in a coal mine explosion in Jacobs Creek PA

1907 Explosion at Jacobs Creek PA, coal mine kills 239

1910 Rayon first commercially produced, Marcus Hook PA

1918 Robert Ripley began his Believe It or Not feature in The New York Globe. (If you like the weird and unusual, check out the bizarre web sites featured on our Strange But True page.)

1919 American Meteorological Society found

1922 Mrs Theres Vaughn, 24, confessed in court to being married 62 times

1924 The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost manufactured in England was sold in London

1928 First autogiro (predecessor of helicopter) flight in US

1930 James Weldon Johnson resigns as executive secretary of NAACP

1932 British Broadcasting Corp begins transmitting overseas

1933 Electric Home and Farm Authority Inc, authorized

1938 Nazi "Ransom Plan" is rejected here, Joint Distribution Committee's Boycott Council votes for intensification of boycott against German goods. Failure of "Barter Plan" is seen.

1941 Company-Sgt. Major John Robert Osborn (The Winnipeg Grenadiers) wins the Victoria Cross at Hong Kong

1945 Austrian Republic re-establishes

1946 War breaks out in Indochina as Ho Chi Minh attacks French in Hanoi

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