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Historical Events
Events 1 - 27 of 27
1609-08-28 - Henry Hudson, discovers & explores Delaware Bay
1637-11-20 - Peter Minuit & 1st Swedish immigrants to Delaware sail from Sweden
1638-03-29 - 1st permanent white settlement in Delaware (Swedish Lutherans)
1639-06-10 - 1st American log cabin at Fort Christina (Wilmington Delaware)
1655-09-26 - Peter Stuyvesant recaptures Dutch Ft Casimir from Swedish in Delaware
1669-12-20 - 1st jury trial in Delaware; Marcus Jacobson condemned for insurrection & sentenced to flogging, branding & slavery
1682-08-24 - Duke James of York gives Delaware to William Penn
1682-10-26 - William Penn accepts area around Delaware River from Duke of York
1737-09-20 - Runner Edward Marshall completes his journey in the Walking Purchase forcing the cession of 1.2 million acres (4,860 km²) of Lenape-Delaware tribal land to the Pennsylvania Colony.
1776-12-08 - George Washington's retreating army crosses Delaware River from NJ
1776-12-25 - Washington crosses Delaware & surprises & defeats 1,400 Hessians
First US President George Washington
1777-08-28 - American Revolutionary War - Battle of Cooch's Bridge takes place near Newark, Delaware.
1777-09-03 - Cooch's Bridge - Skirmish of American Revolutionary war in New Castle County, Delaware where the Flag of the United States was flown in battle for the first time.
1787-12-07 - Delaware becomes 1st state to ratify constitution
1806-01-30 - The original Lower Trenton Bridge (also called the Trenton Makes the World Takes Bridge), which spans the Delaware River between Morrisville, Pennsylvania and Trenton, New Jersey, is opened.
1829-10-17 - Delaware River & Chesapeake Bay Canal formally opens
1861-01-03 - Delaware legislature rejects proposal to join Confederacy
1879-12-13 - 1st federal fish hatching steamer lauched (Wilmington Delaware)
1893-01-17 - -17°F (-27°C), Millsboro, Delaware (state record)
1918-05-02 - General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware.
1923-07-07 - University of Delaware invents "junior year abroad" (at Sorbonne)
1929-10-11 - JC Penney opens store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 U.S. states.
1930-07-21 - 110°F (43°C) at Millsboro, Delaware (state record)
1939-10-24 - Nylon stockings go on sale for 1st time (Wilmington Delaware)
1939-12-15 - 1st commercial manufacture of nylon yarn, Seaford, Delaware
1940-09-29 - 1st US merchant ship "Booker T Washington" commanded by a black captain (Hugh Mulzac), launched at Wilmington Delaware
Education Pioneer Booker Taliaferro Washington
1975-07-13 - 8.5" (21.6 cm) of rainfall, Dover, Delaware (state record)
Famous Birthdays
Birthdays 1 - 22 of 22
1728-10-07 - Caesar Rodney, Delaware, judge/signer (Declaration of Independence)
1732-11-13 - John Dickinson, American lawyer and Governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania (d. 1808)
1738-09-25 - Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and President of Delaware (d. 1789)
1746-11-06 - African-American abolitionist and clergyman Absalom Jones born into slavery in Delaware
1786-02-24 - Martin W. Bates. U.S. Senator from Delaware (d. 1869)
1789-10-16 - William Burton, Governor of Delaware (1859-63) (d. 1866)
1796-07-24 - John Middleton Clayton, Delaware, (Sen-Del)/US Sec of State (1849-50)
1816-05-24 - Emanuel Leutze, US, painter (Washington Crossing the Delaware)
1822-10-04 - Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Delaware Ohio, (R) 19th pres (1877-81)
1825-05-01 - George Inness, US landscape painter (Delaware Water Gap)
1899-05-20 - Estelle Taylor, Delaware, actress (8 Commandments)
1921-07-22 - William V Roth Jr, (Sen-R-Delaware, 1971- )
1923-08-17 - Larry Rivers, [Grossberg], NYC, painter (Wash crossing Delaware-1953)
1935-01-17 - Ruth Ann Minner, Governor of Delaware
1939-07-02 - Michael N Castle, (Rep-R-Delaware)
Singer and Guitarist George Thorogood (1950-02-24)
1950-02-24 - George Thorogood, Wilmington, Delaware, American singer and guitarist (The Delaware Destroyers-Bad to the Bone)
1963-10-06 - Elisabeth Shue, Wilmington, Delaware, actress (Cocktail, Adv in Babysitting)
1969-12-08 - Lisa Marie Munzert, New Castle Delaware, Miss Delaware-America (1991)
1971-04-25 - Michelle Harris, Newark Delaware, Miss America-Delaware (1996)
1972-10-02 - Patricia Gauani, Miss USA-Delaware (1997)
1978-10-15 - Cheryl Crowe, Miss Delaware Teen USA (1997)
1979-10-09 - Ashley Anderson, Miss Delaware Teen USA (1996)
Famous Weddings
Weddings 1 - 3 of 3
1977-06-17 - Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware (34) weds Jill Jacobs (26) at the Chapel at the United Nations in New York City
1996-01-27 - "ER" TV actress Yvette Freeman (39) weds musical director Lawny Hartley (49) in Dunleith, Delaware
2012-06-02 - Vice President Joe Biden's daughter Ashley Biden (30) weds Dr. Howard David Krein at St. Joseph on the Brandywine in Wilmington, Delaware
Famous Deaths
Deaths 1 - 9 of 9
1789-02-19 - Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and President of Delaware (b. 1738)
1789-10-27 - John Cook, American farmer and Governor of Delaware (b. 1730)
1796-08-21 - John McKinly, American physician and President of Delaware (b. 1721)
1808-02-14 - John Dickinson, American lawyer and Governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania (b. 1732)
1815-08-06 - James A. Bayard (elder), United States Senator from Delaware (b. 1767)
1894-08-03 - George Inness, US landscape painter (Delaware Water Gap), dies at 69
1903-06-22 - George White, black resident of Delaware, lynched
1962-03-18 - Walter W. Bacon, Governor of Delaware (b. 1880)
1992-03-14 - Steven Brian Pennell, 1st execution in Delaware in 45 years at 34
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