1607 - Jamestown Virgina founded, the first permanent English settlement in what we know as the United States
1686 - Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, born in Danzig, Prussia (now Gdansk, Poland). We salute you with a thermometer!
1796 - Smallpox vaccine discovered by Edward Jenner
1942 - WAAC (Women's Auxiliary Army Corps) - During WWII women became eligible to enlist for noncombat duties
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