Excerpt taken from The Richmond Guardian, 1892
A sensational bolt occurred in Victoria-street, near Church-street, on Friday last. A horse attached to a business wagon, owned by Kennon and Sons, leather merchants, was startled by some falling timber, and bolted at full speed for a considerable distance. A collision with a tram car was narrowly averted by the commendable conduct of an employee of Lewis and Whitty, who, at great risk, seized the loose rein, and stopped the frightened animal's wild career.
Events and birthdays around the world on this day...
In 1778 Bernardo O'Higgins, won independence for Chile, born.
In 1860 Raymond Poincar, French prime minister (1912), president, born.
In 1866 President Andrew Johnson formally declared the Civil War over.
In 1901 Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian poet, critic, translator (Nobel 1959), born.
In 1914 German forces occupied Brussels, Belgium, during World War I.
In 1918 Britain opened its offensive on the Western front during WW I.
In 1920 US's first commercial radio, 8MK (later WWJ), Detroit began daily broadcasting
In 1921 Jacqueline Susann, writer (Valley of the Dolls), born.
In 1938 Jean-Loup Chritien, first French traveler in space (on Soyuz T-6), born.
In 1930 Dumont's first TV Broadcast for home reception, NY city.
In 1940 Sam Melville, actor, born.
In 1940 British PM Churchill said of the Royal Air Force, `Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.', refering to the Battle of Britain.
In 1940 Leon Trotsky assassinated in Mexico City by agents of Stalin.
In 1942 Dimout regulations implemented in San Francisco.
In 1942 Isaac Hayes, composer, musician, born.
In 1944 Rajiv Gandhi, PM of India (1984-1991), born.
In 1953 Russia publicly acknowledges a test detonation of a hydrogen bomb.
In 1955 First airplane to exceed 1800 mph - HA Hanes, Palmdale Ca.
In 1955 Hundreds killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco and Algeria.
In 1956 Republicans start convention at the Cow Palace, San Francisco.
In 1960 Senegal gains independence from France.
In 1964 LBJ signs an anti-poverty measure totaling nearly $1 billion.
In 1968 Russia and Warsaw Pact nations invaded Czechoslovakia crushing the "Prague Spring" liberalization drive of Alexander Dubcek. A small force of about 650,000 Soviet-block troops was used.
In 1975 Viking 1 launched toward orbit around Mars, soft landing.
In 1977 Voyager 2 launched for fly-by of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. It carries a record containing greetings.
In 1980 The UN Security Council voted 14-0, with the US abstaining, to condemn Israel's declaration that all of Jersualem was its capital.
In 1986 A mail carrier in Edmond, Okla., shot 14 fellow workers dead.
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