1781/01/01

       NEW YEAR’S DAY: Pennsylvania Militiamen mutiny near Morristown, New Jersey, killing one officer, and begin to march on Philadelphia, where Congress is in session.

       [restored 7/12/2026]

Subsequent Events:

Congress meeting place

References:

Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States, (New York: HarperPerennial, 1980), 80.

Current U.s. National Debt:

$39,635,799,057,233

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