Pete in MI
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Things that happened on Dec 29 of various years, including 1950 - as Sherry already pointed out was my birth date:
1778 - British troops, attempting a new strategy to defeat the colonials in America, capture Savannah.
1812 - The USS Constitution won a battle with the British ship HMS Java about 30 miles off the coast of Brazil. Before Commodore William Bainbridge ordered the sinking of the Java he had her wheel removed to replace the one the Constitution had lost during the battle.
1813 - The British burned Buffalo, NY, during the War of 1812.
1837 - Canadian militiamen destroyed the Caroline, a U.S. steamboat docked at Buffalo, NY.
1837 - Steam-powered threshing machine patented, Winthrop, Maine
1845 - U.S. President James Polk and signed legislation making Texas the 28th state of the United States.
1848 - U.S. President James Polk turned on the first gas light at the White House.
1851 - The first American Young Men's Christian Association was organized, in Boston, MA.
1852 Emma Snodgrass is arrested in Boston for wearing pants
1862 The troops of Union General William T. Sherman try to gain the north side of Vicksburg in the Battle of Chicksaw Bayou, Mississippi
1890 - The U.S. Seventh Cavalry massacred over 400 men, women and children at Wounded Knee Creek, SD. This was the last major conflict between Indians and U.S. troops.
1891: Thomas Edison patents the wireless radio.
1940 In a radio interview, President Roosevelt proclaims the United States to be the "arsenal of democracy.
1778 - British troops, attempting a new strategy to defeat the colonials in America, capture Savannah.
1812 - The USS Constitution won a battle with the British ship HMS Java about 30 miles off the coast of Brazil. Before Commodore William Bainbridge ordered the sinking of the Java he had her wheel removed to replace the one the Constitution had lost during the battle.
1813 - The British burned Buffalo, NY, during the War of 1812.
1837 - Canadian militiamen destroyed the Caroline, a U.S. steamboat docked at Buffalo, NY.
1837 - Steam-powered threshing machine patented, Winthrop, Maine
1845 - U.S. President James Polk and signed legislation making Texas the 28th state of the United States.
1848 - U.S. President James Polk turned on the first gas light at the White House.
1851 - The first American Young Men's Christian Association was organized, in Boston, MA.
1852 Emma Snodgrass is arrested in Boston for wearing pants
1862 The troops of Union General William T. Sherman try to gain the north side of Vicksburg in the Battle of Chicksaw Bayou, Mississippi
1890 - The U.S. Seventh Cavalry massacred over 400 men, women and children at Wounded Knee Creek, SD. This was the last major conflict between Indians and U.S. troops.
1891: Thomas Edison patents the wireless radio.
1940 In a radio interview, President Roosevelt proclaims the United States to be the "arsenal of democracy.