Historical happenings
60 St Paul thought to have been shipwrecked at Malta
1720 Edmund Halley appointed 2nd Astronomer Royal of England
1763 Treaty of Paris ends French-Indian War, surrendering Canada to Britain
1863 1st US fire extinguisher patent granted to Alanson Crane, Virginia
1942 Glenn Miller awarded 1st ever gold record for selling 1 million copies of "Chattanooga Choo Choo"
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