2010 Event Men's freestyle skiing moguls competitor, Alexandre Bilodeau, wins the first gold medal Canada has ever won on home soil at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics 1944 Event 1st British gliders touched down on French soil for D-Day 1944 Event 1st British gliders touches down on French soil for D-Day 1942 Event 1st U.S. citizenship granted an alien on foreign soil (James Hoey) 1848 Event Barnburners (anti-slavery) party merges with Free Soil Party nominateing Martin Van Buren for president 1843 Birthday Gleb Uspensky, Russia, author, Power of the Soil 1797 Event Charles Newbold patents 1st cast-iron plow. He can't sell it to farmers, though, they fear effects of iron on soil!
