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1997 1st time a Channukah candle is officially lit in Vatican City
1996 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Lit de Justice, Storm Song, Jewel Princess, Da Hass, Boston Harbor, Pilsudski, Alphabet Soup at Woodbine 1994 Experts from AL certify Indian's Jacobs Field is properly lit 1972 Darius Kasparaitis, Elektrenai Lit, NHL defenseman, Islanders, Pitts 1955 Arco, Idaho becomes 1st U.S. city lit by nuclear power 1934 Sherlock Holmes crossword puzzle in "Sat Review of Lit" Males who solved puzzle became members of Baker Street Irregulars 1933 Mount Davidson Cross lit by Franklin D. Roosevelt via telegraph 1932 Piccadilly Circus, 1st lit by electricity 1923 Eternal flame lit for tomb of unknown solder, Arc de Triumph 1916 Market Street's "Path of Gold" lit for 1st time 1882 Boston's Bijou Theatre, 1st American playhouse lit exclusively by electricity, 1st performance, Gilbert and Sullivan's "Iolanthe" 1882 1st district lit by electricity (NY's Pearl Street Station) 1880 NY's Broadway lit by electricity, becomes known as "Great White Way" 1872 Metropolitan Gas Company lamps lit for 1st time 1854 Major streets lit by coal gas for 1st time 1817 Baltimore is the 1st U.S. city lit by gas 1813 Pavel Annenkov, Russian lit historian, Zametsjatelnoje desjatiletie 1807 London's Pall Mall is 1st street lit by gaslight 1799 Aleksandr Sergeyevich, Russia, poet, founder of modern Russian Lit 1716 1st lighthouse in U.S. lit (Boston Harbor) |
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