1819: British East India Company administrator Sir Stamford Raffles established the port of Singapore.
1886: German mechanical engineer Karl Benz patented the first practical automobile powered by an internal - combustion engine.
1900: The American League of Professional Baseball Clubs was organized in Philadelphia
1919: The Prohibition (Eighteenth) Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified and went into effect the following year.
1924: The first machine for rolling ice cream cones was patented by Carl Rutherford Taylor of Cleveland, Ohio.
1936: Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb were among the first players elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY.
2002: Iraq, Iran, and North Korea called "Axis of Evil" by former U.S President George W. Bush.
2004: Author Janet Frame who created a unique body of work that presents perhaps the most-recognized voice of New Zealand outside of her native country, died.
Drunk (an excerpt)
By: Anton Chekhov
Drunk
by Anton Chekhov
A MANUFACTURER called Frolov, a handsome dark man with a round beard, and a soft, velvety expression in his eyes, and Almer, his lawyer, an elderly man with a big rough head, were drinking in one of the public rooms of a restaurant on the outskirts of the town. They had both come to the restaurant straight from a ball and so were wearing dress coats and white ties. Except them and the waiters at the door there was not a soul in the room; by Frolov's orders no one else was admitted.
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