James Jones 1921 - Soldier, journalist, author
- 1860 - Abraham Lincoln was elected to be the sixteenth president of the United States.
- 1861 - Jefferson Davis was elected as the president of the Confederacy in the U.S.
- 1869 - The first official intercollegiate football game was played in New Brunswick, NJ.
- 1894 - William C. Hooker received a patent for the mousetrap.
- 1923 - Jacob Schick was granted a patent for the electric shaver.
- 1977 - 39 people were killed when an earthen dam burst, sending a wall of water through the campus of Toccoa Falls Bible College in Georgia.
No comments:
Post a Comment