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| 1606 | - | Va Co settlers leave London to establish Jamestown |
| 1699 | - | Peter the Great ordered Russian New Year changed - Sept 1 to Jan 1 |
| 1790 | - | 1st successful US cotton mill (Pawtucket RI) |
| 1803 | - | Louisiana Purchase was formally transferred from France to US |
| 1812 | - | Sacagawea Shoshone interpreter for Lewis & Clark dies |
| 1820 | - | Missouri imposes a $1 bachelor tax on unmarried men between 21 & 50 |
| 1850 | - | Hawaiian PO established |
| 1850 | - | Hawaiian PO established |
| 1860 | - | SC becomes 1st state to secede from US |
| 1864 | - | Union Gen. Sherman continued his `march to the sea.\ Savannah Ga |
| 1879 | - | Tom Edison privately demonstrated incandescent light at Menlo Park |
| 1883 | - | Intl cantilever railway bridge opens at Niagara Falls |
| 1892 | - | Phileas Fogg completes around world trip according to Verne |
| 1892 | - | Pneumatic automobile tire patented |
| 1919 | - | Canadian National Railways established (longest on continent with more than 50 000 kilometers of track in US & Canada) |
| 1922 | - | 14 republics formed USSR |
| 1929 | - | Mt Davidson dedicated as city park |
| 1939 | - | Radio Australia starts shortwave service |
| 1944 | - | Battle of Bastogne Nazis surrounded 101st Airborne (NUTS!) |
| 1963 | - | Berlin Wall opened for 1st time to West Berliners |
| 1968 | - | Author John Steinbeck dies in NY at 66 |
| 1976 | - | Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley dies at 74 |
| 1976 | - | Israel\s PM Yitzhak Rabin resigns |
| 1977 | - | 1st Space walk made by G. Grechko from Salyut |
| 1982 | - | Arthur Rubinstein pianists dies in Geneva Switzerland at 95 |
| 1983 | - | Islanders scored 11 goals against Penguins |
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