Daily Calendar for Saturday, December 16, 2028

Name: Daily Almanac Features
Start: 2028-12-16T00:00:00
End: 2028-12-16T23:59:59

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Lillian Disney (wife of Walt Disney; came up with the name Mickey Mouse) – 1997
John Spencer (actor) – 2005
Michiaki Takahashi (virologist best know for inventing first chickenpox vaccine ) – 2013

On December 16, 1620, the British ship Mayflower arrived at modern-day Plymouth, Massachusetts. Soon after, the Pilgrims began building their settlement, Plymouth Colony. – 1620
A group of American patriots dressed as Indians dumped British tea overboard in Boston Harbor, protesting taxes by the British government; the event is referred to as the Boston Tea Party – 1773
Magnitude-8.1 earthquake in northeast Arkansas – 1811
Earthquake in Mississippi River Valley near Madrid, Missouri – 1811
Hiram W. Hayden patented a machine to make brass kettles – 1851
Second (and current) Cape Hatteras, N.C., lighthouse likely first lit – 1870
Beatrix Potter’s The Tale of Peter Rabbit was first published – 1901
7.1 earthquake, Fairview Peak, Nevada – 1954
Students’ satellite STARSHINE-2 deployed – 2001
9,000th episode of All My Children aired – 2004

The temperature in Hanover, New Hampshire, was -17 degrees F in a bitter cold snap that hit New England – 1835
Ice jam closed Ohio River from Warsaw, Kentucky, to Rising Sun, Indiana – 1917