1606 The Jamestown settlers set sail from England for Virginia.
1790 The first successful American cotton mill begins operating at Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
1803 The Louisiana Purchase is formally completed in New Orleans.
1860 South Carolina becomes the first state to secede from the Union.1891 In late December, James Naismith works out the basics of basketball.
1951 An experimental reactor near Arco, Idaho, produces the first electricity ever generated by atomic power.
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