John D. Rockefeller 1839
- 1099 - Christian soldiers on the First Crusade march around Jerusalem.
- 1608 - The first French settlement at Quebec was established by Samuel de Champlain.
- 1865 - C.E. Barnes patented the machine gun.
- 1879 - The first ship to use electric lights departed from San Francisco, CA.
- 1881 - Edward Berner, druggist in Two Rivers, WI, poured chocolate syrup on ice cream in a dish. To this time chocolate syrup had only been used for making ice-cream sodas.
- 1889 - The Wall Street Journal was first published.
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