Portal:Delaware/History/January 3
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On This Date in Delaware, January 3...
- 1777 - Colonel John Haslet of Milford, commanding officer of the 1st Delaware Regiment, was killed by a bullet in the head at the Battle of Princeton.
- 1866 - Union Generals Ulysses Grant and Philip Sheridan attended the wedding of former cavalry officer Henry B. Thompson to Mary Wilson at Stockford, just south of Wilmington.
- 1942 - In the early months of World War II, the first USO (United Service Organization) opened in Dover on Loockerman Street. Its purpose was to be the "home away from home" for newly inducted military service personnel.
- 1993 - After Governor Michael N. Castle resigned his seat early in order to gain seniority in the US House of Representatives, to which he had been elected, Lieutenant Governor Dale E. Wolf moved into Woodburn, the Governor's Mansion in Dover. Acting Governor Wolf's vacant house in Centerville was burglarized in the meantime.
