2012 Event Scientists studying the Sutter's Mill meteorite, found near where the Sutter's Mill California Gold Rush site, determine it contains the oldest material in the Solar System 1989 Event Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 mill damages for Bhopol disaster 1980 Event Dallas' "Who Shot JR?" episode (Kristen) gets a 53.3 rating (83 mill) 1971 Death Joe E. Lewis, comedian, singer, famous for Al Capone's heavies beating him after he refused to renew his contract at Green Mill Cocktail Lounge in Chicago, Illinois, movie, book, 'The Joker is Wild', dies in New Jersey, age 69 1957 Event 1st titanium mill opened, Toronto, Ohio 1953 Birthday Judi Spiers, born in Britain, Judith Marilyn Spiers, British radio and television presenter, hosted Mr TSW and Miss TSW local beauty contests for new south-west station TSW, appeared in six editions of daytime chat show, presented on Open Air, a BBC1 access television program, in 1986, and Pebble Mill program 1992- 1995, presenter, BBC Radio Devon since 2005 1953 Birthday Andy Mill, skier/husband of Chris Everet 1948 Event "Red Mill" opens at Ziegfeld Theater New York City for 831 performances 1947 Event "Red Mill" closes at Ziegfeld Theater New York City after 831 performances 1932 Birthday Alistair Graham, headmaster, Mill Hill School 1915 Birthday Emil [Theodore] Petaja, U.S., sci-fi author, Star Mill, Tramontane 1912 Birthday Eve Arden, born in Mill Valley, California, actress, Connie-Our Miss Brooks 1906 Event V Herbert and H Blossom's musical "Red Mill," premieres in New York City 1902 Birthday Joe E. Lewis, born in New York City, New York, comedian, singer, famous for Al Capone's heavies beating him after he refused to renew his contract at Green Mill Cocktail Lounge in Chicago, Illinois, movie, book, 'The Joker is Wild' 1880 Event Flour rolling mill patented (John Stevens of Wisconsin) 1877 Event John Stevens, applies for a patent for his flour rolling mill 1873 Death John Stuart Mill, great Empiricist philosopher, dies at 66 1865 Event General Shermans "Haines's Bluff" at Snyder's Mill, Virginia 1865 Event Battle of Hatcher's Run, Virginia (Armstrong's Mill, Dabney's Mill) 1864 Event Battle of Boydton Plank Road, Virginia (Burgess' Mill, Southside Railroad) 1864 Event Battle of Deep Bottom Virginia (Strawberry Plains) and Fussell's Mill VA 1864 Event Battle of Cold Harbor, Virginia (Gaines' Mill, Gaines' Farm) 1864 Event Battle of Marks' Mill, Arkansas (Camden Expedition) 1863 Event Skirmish at Rheatown/Henderson's Mill, Tennessee 1862 Event Battle of Gaines' Mill, Virginia (Cold Harbor, Chickahominy Bluffs) Day 3 1862 Event Battle of Mill Springs, Kentucky (Fishing Creek, Logan's Crossroads) 1860 Event Nation's 1st successful silver mill, Virginia City, Nevada 1853 Event 1st flour mill in Hawaii begins operations 1848 Event James Marshall finds gold in Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California 1830 Event 1st locomotive in U.S., "Tom Thumb," runs from Baltimore to Ellicotts Mill 1830 Event 1st passenger rail service in U.S. (Baltimore and Elliots Mill, Maryland) 1813 Event 1st U.S. raw cotton-to-cloth mill founded in Waltham, Massachusetts 1806 Birthday John Stuart Mill, UK, philosopher/political economist/Utilitarian 1803 Birthday John Augustus Sutter, Swiss / U.S. colonist, New Helvetia, California, Sutter Mill 1790 Event 1st successful U.S. cotton mill to spin yarn (Pawtucket, RI) 1775 Birthday Francis C. Lowell, founded 1st raw cotton-to-cloth textile mill 1773 Birthday James Mill, born in Scotland, philosopher and historian, History of British India 1728 Event Congregation Shearith Israel of New York purchases a lot on Mill Street in lower Manhattan, to build New York's 1st synagogue 1714 Event Typewriter patented by Englishman Henry Mill (built years later) 1639 Event Massachusetts grants 500 acres of land to erect a gunpowder mill