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Dec. 26
1773 Expulsion of tea ships from Philadelphia 1776 Battle of Trenton-major British defeat 1776 George Washington defeats Hessians at Trenton 1799 George Washington is eulogized by Colonel Henry Lee as "1st in war, 1st in peace & 1st in the hearts of his countrymen" 1805 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts established, Philadelphia 1825 Erie Canal opens 1846 Trapped in snow in the Sierra's with no food, members of the Donner Party resort to cannibalism 1848 1st gold seekers arrive in Panamá en route to San Francisco 1854 Wood-pulp paper 1st exhibited, Buffalo 1860 Maiden voyage of 1st steamship owned by 1 man (C Vanderbilt) 1860 Major Robert Anderson, under cover of darkness, concentrated his small force at Fort Sumter 1862 The Battle of Chickasaw Bayou begins 1862 Four nuns serving as volunteer nurses on board USS Red Rover are the first female nurses on a U.S. Navy hospital ship 1862 Battle of Dumfries VA 1865 James H Mason (Massachusetts) patents 1st US coffee percolator 1878 1st US store to install electric lights, in Philadelphia 1917 Federal government took over operation of American RR for duration of WWI 1933 US forswears armed intervention in the Western Hemisphere 1941 Winston Churchill becomes 1st British PM to address a joint meeting of Congress, warning that the Axis would "stop at nothing" 1943 British sink German battle cruiser Scharnhorst 1944 Battle of Bastogne-US General Patton's 4th Pantzers repulse the Germans 1944 Budapest surrounded by soviet army 1964 Moors Murderers claim last victim 1972 Vietnam War: As part of Operation Linebacker II, 120 American B-52 Stratofortress bombers attacked Hanoi, including 78 launched from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam 1973 2 Skylab 3 astronauts walk in space for a record 7 hours 1973 Soyuz 13 returns to Earth 1975 1st supersonic transport service (USSR-Tupolev-144) 1982 TIME's Man of the Year is a computer
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Today's Featured Article - History of the Nuffield Tractor - by Anthony West. The Nuffield tractor story started in early 1945. The British government still reeling from the effects of the war on the economy, approached the Nuffield organization to see if they would design and build an "ALL NEW" British built wheeled tractor, suitable for both British and world farming.
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