Jack Benny (Benjamin Kubelsky), comedian, died, 1974
DPMA founded, 1951
William the Conquerer crowned King William I of England, 1066
Charlemagne crowned emperor, 800
Federal Government took control of US railroads for WWI, 1917
A plane flew at 11,474 feet, 1910
Three Indian tribes won a court battle to use gill nets, 1981
Battle of Trenton (New Jersey), 1776
Main body of Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1620
Stephen became the English Sovereign, 1135
First electric lighting installed in a store (Philadelphia), 1878
“Of thee I Sing” opened (New York), 1931
“The Glass Menagerie” first performed publicly (Chicago), 1944
Harry S Truman, 33rd US president, died, 1972
Melville Louis Kossuth “Melvil” Dewey, American librarian, died, 1931
William Buckley’s body found in Beirut, 1991
Coffee percolator patented (James H. Nason, Franklin, Massachusetts), 1865
Big Bertha, world’s oldest cow (49), died, 1993