January 7
Today in America's Present Past
1608 | Jamestown, Virginia, destroyed by fire.
1658 | Theophilus Eaton died.
1767 | Thomas Clap, first President of Yale, died.
1782 | Bank of North America, the nation’s first commercial bank, opens.
1800 | POTUS: President Millard Fillmore was born.
1815 | Author Elizabeth Louisa Foster Mather was born.
1830 | Painter Albert Bierstadt was born.
1867 | The jail in Kingstree, South Carolina, burns down, killing 22 inmates.
1891 | Author Zora Neale Hurston was born.
1894 | Inventor Thomas Edison makes a kinetoscopic film of someone sneezing.
1894 | William Kennedy Dickson receives a patient for a motion picture film.
1908 | Jazz musician Red Allen was born.
1919 | Entrepreneur Henry Ware Eliot died.
1920 | Civil Rights: The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five elected Socialists.
