Portal:Delaware/History/January 16
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On This Date in Delaware, January 16...
- 1866 - Burton N. Harrison, private secretary to President of the Confederacy Jefferson Davis, became the last Rebel prisoner to be released from Fort Delaware.
- 1945 - Authorities notified Delawareans that cigarettes, hard to get during the war, would soon be rationed at fifteen per day for smokers.
- 1970 - "The State of Pennsylvania," one of the last Delaware River steamers, foundered in Wilmington's Christina River and laid there for years.
