0870 England's Ethelred I defeats the Danes December 31 in a skirmish at Englefield in Berkshire

1600 British East India Company chartered

1744 James Bradley announces discovery of Earth's motion of nutation

1775 Battle of Quebec; Americans unable to take British stronghold

1776 Rhode Island establishes wage and price controls to curb inflation Limit is $0.70 a day for carpenters, $0.42 for tailors

1781 Bank of North America, first US bank opens

1805 End of French Republican calendar; France returns to Gregorianism

1841 Alabama becomes first state to license dental surgeons

1857 Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa as new capitol of Canada

1862 President Lincoln signs act admitting West Virginia to the Union

1862 USS Monitor founders in a storm off Cape Hatteras, NC.1862 Battle of Murfreesboro, Tennessee

1870 J D Schneiter patents rocket mail in France, (not done)

1879 Cornerstone laid for Iolani Palace (only royal palace in US)

1879 Edison gives first public demonstration of his incandescent lamp

1879 The opera "The Pirates of Penzance" is produced (New York NY)

1890 Ellis Island (New York NY) opens as a US immigration depot

1897 Brooklyn's last day as a city, it incorporates into NYC (1/1/1898)

1907 For the first time a ball drops at Times Square to signal the new year

1921 Last San Francisco firehorses retired

1923 First transatlantic radio broadcast of a voice, Pittsburgh-Manchester

1924 Hubble announces existence of distant galaxies.

1934 Helen Richey becomes first woman to pilot an airmail transport

1941 Admiral Chester W. Nimitz assumes command of U.S. Pacific Fleet.

1942 Commissioning of USS Essex (CV-9), first of new class of aircraft carriers, at Norfolk, VA

1943 NYC's Times Square greets Frank Sinatra at the Paramount Theater

1944 48 people die in a train accident in Ogden, Utah

1945 Ratification of UN Charter completed

1946 French troops leave Lebanon

1946 President Truman officially proclaims end of WW-II

1951 First battery to convert radioactive energy to electrical announced

1953 Hulan Jack sworn in as Manhattan Borough president

1958 International Geophyscial Year ends

1961 First performance of the Beach Boys

1961 Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than $12 billion

1962 Katanga becomes part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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