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Events

• The College of New Jersey, now Princeton University, was granted its charter by the royal governor of NJ– 1746
• Andre Jacques Garnerin, French aeronaut and inventor of the parachute, made first parachute jump from a balloon, at height of 2,000 feet– 1797
• New York’s original Metropolitan Opera House opened with a performance of Charles Gounod’s Faust– 1883
• First national horse show opened in New York City– 1883
• Chester Carlson produced the first xerographic copy– 1938
• Percy L. Julian, Edwin W. Meyer, and Norman C. Krause received patent for cortisone– 1940
• Margaret Meagher became Canada’s first female ambassador (to Israel)– 1958
• Jean-Paul Sartre, French writer and philosopher, rejected the Nobel Prize for literature– 1964
• The Kwanzaa U.S. postage stamp was first issued; Synthia Saint James did the artwork.– 1997
• Fisherman caught a rare purple lobster off the coast of Winter Harbor, Maine– 2019