TODAY IN HISTORY

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1457 – Gutenberg Bible became the first printed book.

1622 – Indians attacked a group of colonist in the James River area of Virginia.

347 residents were killed.

1630 – The first legislation to prohibit gambling was enacted. It was in Boston, MA.

1638 – Anne Hutchinsoon, a religious dissident, was expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

1719 – Frederick William abolished serfdom on crown property in Prussia.

1733 – Joseph Priestly invented carbonated water (seltzer).

1765 – The Stamp Act was passed. It was the first direct British tax on the American colonists. It was repealed on March 17, 1766.

1775 – Edmund Burke presented his 13 articles to the English parliament.

1790 – Thomas Jefferson became the first U.S. Secretary of State.

1794 – The U.S. Congress banned U.S. vhttps://on-thisday. comessels from supplying slaves to other countries.

1822 – New York Horticultural Society was founded.

1841 – Englishman Orlando Jones patented cornstarch.

1871 – William Holden of North Carolina became the first governor to be removed by impeachment.

1872 – Illinois became the first state to require sexual equality in employment.

1873 – Slavery was abolished in Puerto Rico.

1874 – The Young Men’s Hebrew Association was organized in New York City.

1882 – The U.S. Congress outlawed polygamy.

1888 – The English Football League was established.

1894 – The first playoff competition for the Stanley Cup began. Montreal played Ottawa.

1895 – Auguste and Louis Lumiere showed their first movie to an invited audience in Paris.

1901 – Japan proclaimed that it was determined to keep Russia from encroaching on Korea.

1902 – Great Britain and Persia agreed to link Europe and India by telegraph.

1903 – Niagara Falls ran out of water due to a drought.

1903 – In Columbia, the region near Galera De Zamba was devastated by a volcanic eruption.

1904 – The first color photograph was published in the London Daily Illustrated Mirror.

1905 – Child miners in Britain received a maximum

8-hour workday.

1906 – France lost the first ever rugby game ever played against Britain.

1907 – Russians troops completed the evacuation of Manchuria in the face of advancing Japanese forces.

1907 – In Paris, it was reported that male cab drivers dressed as women to attract riders.

1910 – In Liberia, a telegraph cable linked Tenerife and Monrovia.

1911 – Herman Jadlowker became the first opera singer to perform two major roles in the same day at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City.

1915 – A German zeppelin made a night raid on Paris railway stations.

1919 – The first international airline service was inaugurated on a weekly schedule between Paris and Brussels.