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1989 Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 mill damages for Bhopol disaster
1980 Dallas' "Who Shot JR?" episode (Kristen) gets a 53.3 rating (83 mill) 1971 Joe E. Lewis, comedian, singer, famous for Al Capone's heavies beating him after he refused to renew his contract at Green Mill Cocktail Lounge in Chicago, Illinois, movie, book, 'The Joker is Wild', dies in New Jersey, age 69 1957 1st titanium mill opened, Toronto, Ohio 1953 Judi Spiers, born in Britain, Judith Marilyn Spiers, British radio and television presenter, hosted Mr TSW and Miss TSW local beauty contests for new south-west station TSW, appeared in six editions of daytime chat show, presented on Open Air, a BBC1 access television program, in 1986, and Pebble Mill program 1992- 1995, presenter, BBC Radio Devon since 2005 1953 Andy Mill, skier/husband of Chris Everet 1948 "Red Mill" opens at Ziegfeld Theater New York City for 831 performances 1947 "Red Mill" closes at Ziegfeld Theater New York City after 831 performances 1932 Alistair Graham, headmaster, Mill Hill School 1915 Emil [Theodore] Petaja, U.S., sci-fi author, Star Mill, Tramontane 1912 Eve Arden, born in Mill Valley, California, actress, Connie-Our Miss Brooks 1906 V Herbert and H Blossom's musical "Red Mill," premieres in New York City 1902 Joe E. Lewis, born in New York City, New York, comedian, singer, famous for Al Capone's heavies beating him after he refused to renew his contract at Green Mill Cocktail Lounge in Chicago, Illinois, movie, book, 'The Joker is Wild' 1880 Flour rolling mill patented (John Stevens of Wisconsin) 1877 John Stevens, applies for a patent for his flour rolling mill 1873 John Stuart Mill, great Empiricist philosopher, dies at 66 1865 General Shermans "Haines's Bluff" at Snyder's Mill, Virginia 1865 Battle of Hatcher's Run, Virginia (Armstrong's Mill, Dabney's Mill) 1864 Battle of Boydton Plank Road, Virginia (Burgess' Mill, Southside Railroad) 1864 Battle of Deep Bottom Virginia (Strawberry Plains) and Fussell's Mill VA 1864 Battle of Cold Harbor, Virginia (Gaines' Mill, Gaines' Farm) 1864 Battle of Marks' Mill, Arkansas (Camden Expedition) 1863 Skirmish at Rheatown/Henderson's Mill, Tennessee 1862 Battle of Gaines' Mill, Virginia (Cold Harbor, Chickahominy Bluffs) Day 3 1862 Battle of Mill Springs, Kentucky (Fishing Creek, Logan's Crossroads) 1860 Nation's 1st successful silver mill, Virginia City, Nevada 1853 1st flour mill in Hawaii begins operations 1848 James Marshall finds gold in Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California 1830 1st locomotive in U.S., "Tom Thumb," runs from Baltimore to Ellicotts Mill 1830 1st passenger rail service in U.S. (Baltimore and Elliots Mill, Maryland) 1813 1st U.S. raw cotton-to-cloth mill founded in Waltham, Massachusetts 1806 John Stuart Mill, UK, philosopher/political economist/Utilitarian 1803 John Augustus Sutter, Swiss / U.S. colonist, New Helvetia, California, Sutter Mill 1790 1st successful U.S. cotton mill to spin yarn (Pawtucket, RI) 1775 Francis C. Lowell, founded 1st raw cotton-to-cloth textile mill 1773 James Mill, born in Scotland, philosopher and historian, History of British India 1728 Congregation Shearith Israel of New York purchases a lot on Mill Street in lower Manhattan, to build New York's 1st synagogue 1714 Typewriter patented by Englishman Henry Mill (built years later) 1639 Massachusetts grants 500 acres of land to erect a gunpowder mill |
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