2014 Event In an effort to address the flood of unaccompanied immigrant children crossing the Texas border, Governor Rick Perry sends 1,000 National Guard troops to provide border security 2013 Event In Stockholm, Sweden, immigrant youths riot and burn over 100 vehicles 1961 Event Israel welcomes its 1,000,000th immigrant 1934 Event 1st Jewish immigrant ship to break the English blockade in Palestine 1932 Event Immigrant Adolf Hitler gets German citizenship 1917 Death Francesca Saveria Cabrini, U.S. saint/patron of immigrant, dies at 67 1913 Birthday Jo Sinclair, born in Brooklyn, New York, pen name Jo Sinlair, writer, novelist, focused on race relations and the struggle of immigrant families, wrote Sing at My Wake, Anna Teller 1866 Event Immigrant ship Monarch of the Seas sinks in Liverpool; 738 die 1843 Event 1st Chinese immigrant arrives in Suriname 1683 Event Germantown Pennsylvania founded by 13 immigrant families 1654 Event 1st Jewish immigrant to U.S., Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam
