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quotes[1] = "<p><strong> 1918<\/strong> It was announced that schools in Laurel and Seaford closed since the last week of September because of the Spanish flu pandemic, would reopen November 5.<\/p><p><strong> 1957<\/strong> State oyster beds were afflicted with disease and 90% destroyed for the next 4 years.<\/p><p><strong> 1980<\/strong> Thomas H. Draper of Milford bought the television station WBOC in Salisbury, MD.<\/p><p><strong> 2002<\/strong> Just seconds before a 9,000 ton CSX locomotive pulling a 171 car smashed a stranded car on Newark railroad tracks, 3 University of Delaware students snatched its inebriated driver from certain death.<\/p>";
quotes[2] = "<p><strong> 1640<\/strong> With Peter Hollandaer as governor, the 3rd Swedish expedition arrived at Fort Christina in Wilmington.<\/p><p><strong> 1920<\/strong> Thousands of Delaware women, along with those across the nation, went to the polls to vote for the first time due to the passage of the 19th Amendment.<\/p><p><strong> 1932<\/strong> Apple pickers at the W. L. Smith Orchard in Cheswold harvested the year\'s crop and hoped it would equal or surpass the year 1926 when growers picked an all-time high of 85 million pounds.<\/p><p><strong> 2003<\/strong> A 50 year old Dagsboro man died from injuries received when a deer collided with his motorcycle near Georgetown just before noon.<\/p>";
quotes[3] = "<p><strong> 1863<\/strong> Pvt. James Burton, 5th Alabama Regiment, CSA, captured 3 times and a POW 3 times at Fort Delaware, succumbed to disease.<\/p><p><strong> 1928<\/strong> Republican candidate John Townsend of Selbyville attempted to reopen the Indian River Inlet with 2,200 lbs. of dynamite. The Inlet had been clogged up for years. It didn\'t work, but it helped get him elected to the US Senate 3 days later.<\/p><p><strong> 1964<\/strong> In the first of 2 major reapportionments according to the US Supreme Court\'s \"one man, one vote\" in the case Baker v. Carr, upstate-downstate  representation in the state senate changed from 7-10 to 12-6, favoring upstate.  In the state house the ratio previously had been 15-20.  Henceforth, it would be in favor of upstate, 24-10.<\/p><p><strong> 1970<\/strong> Henrietta Johnson of Wilmington became the first black woman elected to the General Assembly.<\/p>";
quotes[4] = "<p><strong> 1862<\/strong> William Cannon of Bridgeville was elected governor while Federal troops from Maryland and New York stood at the polls during the election.<\/p><p><strong> 1965<\/strong> The General Assembly declared Return Day a legal half day in Sussex County schools.<\/p><p><strong> 2002<\/strong> At Summit Airport in lower New Castle County, a Cessna aircraft practicing landings after dark hit a deer that ran out onto the runway.  No person was injured, but the event caused \$10,000 damage to the plane\'s prop and engine. The deer had to be euthanized.<\/p><p><strong> 2008<\/strong> Illinois US Senator Barrack Obama and Delaware\'s US Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr., became the President and Vice-President Elect, respectively.  No other Delawarean has ever been elected to such a high office.<\/p>";
quotes[5] = "<p><strong> 1842<\/strong> John M. Clayton  moved to the George Read, II, House in New Castle while his home Buena Vista was being built.<\/p><p><strong> 1850<\/strong> In the closest gubernatorial election in Delaware\'s history, William Ross of Seaford, youngest governor ever elected (36), received 50.09% of the votes cast, a margin of 23 votes out of 11,979 cast while defeating Thomas Lockwood of the Temperance Party.<\/p><p><strong> 1872<\/strong> President Ulysses Grant sent Federal marshals to Wilmington to ensure African Americans were permitted to vote.<\/p><p><strong> 1940<\/strong> Former US Senator John Townsend\'s son Paul died a few days after Townsend was defeated for reelection.<\/p>";
quotes[6] = "<p><strong> 1861<\/strong> After the Du Pont Company refused to sell gunpowder to the Confederacy, Lammot du Pont traveled surreptitiously to England to secure saltpeter for gunpowder production.<\/p><p><strong> 1900<\/strong> Philip Leonidas Cannon of Bridgeville, son of Governor William Cannon (1863-65), became Delaware\'s first lieutenant-governor by defeating William F. Hoey.<\/p><p><strong> 1927<\/strong> State police made a raid near Cooch\'s Bridge in Newark and found a still with about 100 gallons of mash intended to produce whiskey illegally during the prohibition.<\/p><p><strong> 2003<\/strong> After many people were displaced by Hurricane Henri 2 months before, a government buyout was planned for 161 homes of 200 in Glenville near Stanton.<\/p>";
quotes[7] = "<p><strong> 1874<\/strong> The horse racing grounds at Wilmington\'s Schuetzen Park (present day Wawaset Park) were sold by the sheriff to Victor du Pont.<\/p><p><strong> 1930<\/strong> The Federal Prohibition Administrator Harold D. \"Three Gun\" Wilson raided 18 Wilmington speakeasies.<\/p><p><strong> 1985<\/strong> Container ships of 886 feet headed for Baltimore were cleared to pass through the C &amp;amp; D Canal.  Previously only those of 840 were allowed.  Since the cost of daily operation of such ships was \$35-50,000, this short cut was a considerable savings.<\/p><p><strong> 2003<\/strong> Because of a faulty hookup of an appliance, Sears Roebuck and Co. was ordered by Superior Court to pay the Terry Midcap Family of Camden \$2.66 million when he was killed in a gas explosion at their Royal Grant home.<\/p>";
quotes[8] = "<p><strong> 1656<\/strong> New Castle elected its first town officers.<\/p><p><strong> 1960<\/strong> Five people died in a fire at the Synvar Corp. chemical plant in Wilmington.<\/p><p><strong> 1962<\/strong> Wilmington\'s Rialto Theater at 220 Market Street was the last to prohibit African Americans from entering to see movies.<\/p><p><strong> 2000<\/strong> The Russell W. Peterson Wildlife Refuge area of 225 acres was dedicated on the banks of the Christina River in Wilmington.<\/p>";
quotes[9] = "<p><strong> 1682<\/strong> Weekly public markets were ordered to be held in New Castle.<\/p><p><strong> 1856<\/strong> John M. Clayton, former US Senator and US Secretary of State, age 60, died in Dover at the home of his nephew J. P. Comegys.<\/p><p><strong> 1907<\/strong> In perhaps its worst season ever, the Delaware College (U/D) football team tied Johns Hopkins 0-0.  In a six game schedule that year, the team never scored a point!<\/p><p><strong> 2006<\/strong> Return Day was held in Georgetown with former Representative Evelyn \'Tina\' Fallon of Seaford as Grand Marshall.  Having served 28 years, Fallon was reputedly the oldest member ever to have served in the General Assembly when she chose to retire at age 89.<\/p>";
quotes[10] = "<p><strong> 1674<\/strong> Dutch rule ended on the Delaware River when the new British Governor, Sir Edmund Andros, arrived at New Castle to assume command.<\/p><p><strong> 1769<\/strong> John Penn, representing brothers Thomas and Richard Penn, proprietaries, signed a charter for Francis Alison\'s New Ark Academy, predecessor of the UD.<\/p><p><strong> 1880<\/strong> A library opened in Harrington and advertised \$1 memberships with 10\¢ per week dues.<\/p><p><strong> 2008<\/strong> Two sport utility vehicles (SUVs) collided head-on near Frederica and killed 6 people. One auto had 4 children.<\/p>";
quotes[11] = "<p><strong> 1919<\/strong> Town leaders in Middletown dedicated a monument at Four Corners, or Cochran Square recalling four servicemen who died in World War I.<\/p><p><strong> 1932<\/strong> High tides did storm damage at Delaware City while high waters flooded the first floor of Bayview cottages as a 50 foot pier was destroyed.<\/p><p><strong> 1959<\/strong> US Senator John F. Kennedy, a candidate for the Presidency of the US, visited Wilmington to attend a banquet of Brandywine Hundred Democrats.<\/p><p><strong> 1961<\/strong> The Greek Orthodox Church consecrated its location, formerly the site of the home of T. Coleman du Pont at Wilmington\'s 808 North Broom Street.<\/p>";
quotes[12] = "<p><strong> 1817<\/strong> Land was purchased for the Milton Academy  which operated until 1880 when it became the site of Milton\'s first high school.<\/p><p><strong> 1872<\/strong> Edwin Forrest, the famous actor and 19th Century tragedian, played in Hamlet, his last appearance in Wilmington. He died a month later.<\/p><p><strong> 1942<\/strong> Joseph R. Biden, Jr., US Senator (1973-2009) and Vice President of the US, was born in Scranton, Pa.<\/p><p><strong> 1996<\/strong> Brian Peterson and Amy Grossberg, students at Gettysburg and the University of Delaware respectively, left a new born baby to die in a dumpster at a Newark motel.<\/p>";
quotes[13] = "<p><strong> 1703<\/strong> Hickory Grove Quaker Meeting House opened near Port Penn.<\/p><p><strong> 1732<\/strong> John Dickinson, future Delaware governor (1781-1782) and Signer of the US Constitution, was born in Trappe, Maryland.<\/p><p><strong> 1839<\/strong> Land at Railroad Avenue and Adams Streets was bought for the Prospect AME Church in Georgetown. The site later served as a school for black children.<\/p><p><strong> 1942<\/strong> Charles Leonard Caulk, Jr., Seaman 2nd Cl. from Wilmington perished when his ship USS Juneau was sunk off Guadalcanal in the Pacific.<\/p>";
quotes[14] = "<p><strong> 1873<\/strong> Governor James Ponder, amid much criticism, appointed his son-in-law former US Senator Willard Saulsbury, Sr. (1859-1871) Chancellor of Delaware.<\/p><p><strong> 1942<\/strong> The University of Delaware football team defeated Western Maryland under Coach Bill Murray 45-0 for its first undefeated, untied season.<\/p><p><strong> 2000<\/strong> Five term US Senator William V. Roth, Jr. was defeated in his bid for reelection.  Opposed by out-going Governor Thomas R. Carper, it was the most expensive election ever in the state with the expenditure of \$6.7 million.<\/p><p><strong> 2002<\/strong> A St. Georges man saved the life of a Bear woman who was in an auto accident.  Ejected from her car on impact, the 21 year old junior at the U/D lay comatose down an embankment for 30 hours before she was rescued!<\/p>";
quotes[15] = "<p><strong> 1777<\/strong> The Delaware River was blocked by the British fleet from Cape Henlopen to Philadelphia.<\/p><p><strong> 1863<\/strong> Three Confederate prisoners captured at Gettysburg drowned while trying to escape from Fort Delaware.<\/p><p><strong> 1917<\/strong> The Kent Co. draft board received a letter from a woman who thought her estranged husband should be drafted.<\/p><p><strong> 2002<\/strong> On the first day of shotgun season, Fran Balbach of New Castle bagged a 192 lb. 12 point buck in Bombay Hook.  Frank Smith, resident wild life biologist, claimed some 500-600 deer lived on the preserve.<\/p>";
quotes[16] = "<p><strong> 1739<\/strong> Willington, the largest city in Delaware, received a royal charter and was renamed Wilmington with William Shipley as the first Chief Burgess (Mayor).<\/p><p><strong> 1799<\/strong> James A. Bayard, Jr., US Senator (1851-1864;1867-1869), was born in Wilmington.<\/p><p><strong> 1987<\/strong> John Rollins held a fund raiser at his Centreville estate for Pete du Pont\'s run for the US Presidency.<\/p><p><strong> 2007<\/strong> Newark veterans gathered at the World War I monument on the U/D campus near Old College to mark the spot where New Castle County men were sworn in for military service during World War I.<\/p>";
quotes[17] = "<p><strong> 1967<\/strong> Coach Bill Billings\'s Middletown High School football team\'s winning streak of 53 games from 1962-67 was broken in defeat by Newark High School, 19-6.<\/p><p><strong> 2000<\/strong> Dwayne Weeks, a 37 year old man from Wilmington was executed by lethal injection for the murder of his estranged wife and her boyfriend.<\/p><p><strong> 2003<\/strong> The Du Pont Company announced it would sell Invista, its nylon, polyester, and lycra business to Koch (\'cook\') Industries, Inc. of Wichita, Kansas for \$4.4 billion.<\/p><p><strong> 2008<\/strong> After a dismal meeting of the DEFAC (Delaware Economic Forecast Advisory Council) Committee because of the deteriorating economy, Governor Minner proposed a hiring freeze, a 7% budget cut of the present year and a 15% cut of the next year.<\/p>";
quotes[18] = "<p><strong> 1876<\/strong> State education Superintendent James H. Groves gave notice that a teachers\' institute for New Castle County would be held in Newark at the College Oratory on December 1st and 2nd.<\/p><p><strong> 1895<\/strong> A Woman Suffrage Club was organized in Wilmington.<\/p><p><strong> 1899<\/strong> Charles Warner was believed to be the first person to own a car in Wilmington when he purchased a Locomobile steamer.<\/p><p><strong> 1935<\/strong> Lewes and Rehoboth were hit by a 60 MPH gale with water crashing over the boardwalk.<\/p>";
quotes[19] = "<p><strong> 1861<\/strong> Privates Samuel C. Bracey and Gottlieb Griessinger of Company G, 2nd Delaware Infantry were poisoned by Southern sympathizing townspeople while on duty in Cambridge, Maryland.<\/p><p><strong> 1863<\/strong> On the same day of Lincoln\'s Gettysburg Address, a special election was held in Delaware to replace Congressman elect William Temple who had died in May.<\/p><p><strong> 1925<\/strong> The Old Dickinson Hotel in Townsend was destroyed by fire with a loss of \$19,000.  A passing train helped extinguish much of the flames with water it carried.<\/p><p><strong> 1994<\/strong> Blue Hen footballer Daryl Brown became the all-time rushing leader with a career 50 touchdowns and 4,587 yards in the defeat of Rhode Island, 26-7.<\/p>";
quotes[20] = "<p><strong> 1827<\/strong> Governor Charles Polk pardoned Solomon Green from a death sentence for burning down the Kent County Jail only if he left the state within 5 days.<\/p><p><strong> 1880<\/strong> Milton undertaker S. J. Wilson advertised flat top walnut coffins for children from \$5-12 and those for adults from \$15-30.<\/p><p><strong> 1945<\/strong> Pvt. Leo Shepherd of Wilmington pulled guard duty at the Nuernberg Trials and managed to get autographs of 18 of the 21 Nazi officials.<\/p><p><strong> 1974<\/strong> Operatic soprano Leontyne Price performed at the newly renovated 1,128 seat Grand Opera House in Wilmington.<\/p>";
quotes[21] = "<p><strong> 1856<\/strong> Joseph G. White began the village of Whitesville on the Maryland line near Delmar with the opening of his store.<\/p><p><strong> 1868<\/strong> Seven people were whipped in New Castle, among whom were an African American boy and a mulatto.  Each received 20 lashes.<\/p><p><strong> 1943<\/strong> The Tanker Altair rammed the Bostonian, another tanker in the fog (and without the aid of running lights) 60 miles off Cape Henlopen.<\/p><p><strong> 2008<\/strong> Milton electrician Scott Schaeffer uncovered the 10 carat gold Rehoboth High School class ring of Walter Sutherland with his metal detector.  Found under 7 inches of soil in town, the ring had been lost since 1965--43 years!<\/p>";
quotes[22] = "<p><strong> 1786<\/strong> Sussex Loyalist Thomas Robinson died after returning home from exile in Wilmot, Nova Scotia.<\/p><p><strong> 1900<\/strong> A. B. Robinson\'s Canning Factory on Chandler\'s Wharf in Milton was completely destroyed by fire.<\/p><p><strong> 1961<\/strong> George S. Williams, former Congressman (1939-1941), 84, died in Millsboro.<\/p><p><strong> 2004<\/strong> Tom Martone of Bear caught a 54.1 lb. striped bass in the Chesapeake Bay out of Crisfield, MD.<\/p>";
quotes[23] = "<p><strong> 1676<\/strong> Residents of New Castle received permission from Governor Edmund Andros to build a jail in their town.<\/p><p><strong> 1833<\/strong> The Wilmington Whaling Company was organized.  Oftentimes, such ships did not return to port for months at a time.<\/p><p><strong> 1901<\/strong> Warden A. S. Meserve administered the first corporal punishment at the New Castle County Workhouse with whippings of 4 men before a crowd of 100 persons.<\/p><p><strong> 1945<\/strong> The rationing of meats, canned fish, and butter, banned for so long on the home front during World War II, was ended.<\/p>";
quotes[24] = "<p><strong> 1796<\/strong> John M. Clayton, US Senator (1829;1836;1845-1849;1853-1856), and US Secretary of State (1849), was born in Dagsboro.<\/p><p><strong> 1878<\/strong> Leonard Chadwick, later recipient of the Medal of Honor in Cuba on May 11,1898, was born in Middletown.<\/p><p><strong> 2006<\/strong> Mike McCall, 51, of Middletown caught a striped bass, 66 lbs. and 54 inches long.  Landing the prize in Delaware Bay, it took 20 minutes to pull it on board.<\/p><p><strong> 2008<\/strong> Governor Minner named Edward E. \"Ted\" Kaufman of Greenville, long time staff member for US Senator Joseph Biden as the latter\'s replacement in Washington for a 2 year term until 2010.  Biden resigned to become US Vice President.<\/p>";
quotes[25] = "<p><strong> 1865<\/strong> Sarah E. Robinson, African American convicted of larceny, received 20 lashes and was sold to John B. Vining for 5 cents for a period of 7 years. She was the last woman in New Castle County to be whipped.<\/p><p><strong> 1873<\/strong> An illustrated lecture was given at the Grand Opera House by Thomas Nast, famous cartoonist of Harper\'s Weekly.<\/p><p><strong> 1937<\/strong> With mistletoe aplenty, 4,000 Sussex County workers prepared to begin making holly wreaths which brought maybe 3-6\¢ a wreath.<\/p><p><strong> 1954<\/strong> St. John\'s Roman Catholic Church was dedicated in Milford.<\/p>";
quotes[26] = "<p><strong> 1781<\/strong> General Washington, accompanied by troops and body guards, passed through Wilmington to receive the thanks of Congress at the end of the war.<\/p><p><strong> 1846<\/strong> John R. Williamson of New Castle County was convicted of forgery and had to pay a \$500 fine, sit in the pillory for one hour, be imprisoned for three months, and wear the letter \"F\" on the back of his coat for two years.<\/p><p><strong> 1940<\/strong> Selective Service inductions began in Delaware with the quota of 120 recruits.<\/p><p><strong> 2004<\/strong> The tanker Athos I spilled as much as 265,500 gallons of crude oil into the Delaware River after striking a submerged abandoned anchor.  It fouled a 50 mile stretch of the river, but the oil spill was stopped 100 yards from the C &amp;amp; D Canal.<\/p>";
//quotes[27] = "<p><strong> 1773<\/strong> Delaware river pilots were warned under threat of being tarred and feathered not to bring the British trader Polly up the Delaware River.<\/p><p><strong> 1837<\/strong> Trains began service on the Wilmington and Susquehanna Railroad.<\/p><p><strong> 1875<\/strong> Odessa planned a new town hall to be built on Main Street opposite the fire hall.  The building was to be 36 x 70 feet long, 2 stories high, and would cost \$2,500.<\/p><p><strong> 2002<\/strong> The Clean Indoor Air Act took effect one day before Thanksgiving and stated smoking would no longer be permitted in most public buildings, including bars, casinos, businesses, and restaurants.<\/p>";
//quotes[28] = "<p><strong> 1843<\/strong> Edgar Allen Poe read poetry at Wilmington\'s Lyceum Theater.<\/p><p><strong> 1904<\/strong> An electric railway car operated between Odessa and Middletown and lasted for 6 years.  The fare between the two towns \"after 6 O\'Clock\" was 5 cents.<\/p><p><strong> 1945<\/strong> German prisoners totaling 1,750 left Delaware for home via Boston with another 2,000 to follow.<\/p><p><strong> 1948<\/strong> Catholic Bishop FitzMaurice visited Seaford for the cornerstone laying ceremony of the new Our Lady of Lourdes Parish.<\/p>";
//quotes[29] = "<p><strong> 1832<\/strong> The Newark Academy (U/D) bought six acres of land for expansion on Main Street from Alexander McBeath for \$1,000.<\/p><p><strong> 1934<\/strong> The first annual Thanksgiving football game took place between Dover and Caesar Rodney High Schools.<\/p><p><strong> 1947<\/strong> The Federal Government returned the New Castle County Airport to the state as passenger, express and freight service reopened to the public.<\/p><p><strong> 2008<\/strong> The last of the Drive-In Theaters, the Diamond State in Felton which was in existence almost 60 years, finally closed.<\/p>";
//quotes[30] = "<p><strong> 1776<\/strong> The First Delaware Continental Line troops were mustered in Dover.<\/p><p><strong> 1915<\/strong> The 2nd worst explosion occurred at the Du Pont\'s Powder Mills along the Brandywine killing 30 people and injuring 5.<\/p><p><strong> 1927<\/strong> At an auction in London, the Delaware Historical Society purchased a Delaware Militia flag that had been captured by the British just before the Battle of Brandywine in 1777, 150 years before.<\/p><p><strong> 1942<\/strong> The first War Loan Drive of World War II was held in Delaware with the state providing \$39 million of the \$9 billion sought nationally.<\/p>";

quotes[27] = "<p><strong> 1892<\/strong> The Slaughter Beach Hotel offered dinners that included Delaware Bay clams, boiled rock, wild duck, crab salad, stewed terrapin, Delaware biscuits---all you could eat for 50 cents!<\/p><p><strong> 1927<\/strong> Giuseppe Bellanca bought the Spring Garden Farm near New Castle from Henry B. du Pont and friends for \$37,215 and proceeded to build a factory to manufacture airplanes.<\/p><p><strong> 1938<\/strong> The Du Pont Company announced the discovery of nylon in the New York Herald Tribune and followed it later with a full page ad.<\/p><p><strong> 1985<\/strong> Georgetown had one of its biggest Halloween parades ever despite a local church referring to the holiday as \"a high holy day of Satanic worship\".<\/p>";
quotes[28] = "<p><strong> 1682<\/strong> William Penn arrived in New Castle aboard the Welcome and began his tenure as the new Quaker proprietor of Pennsylvania.  One third of the passengers died and were buried at sea.<\/p><p><strong> 1799<\/strong> Plans for the town of Seaford were laid out.<\/p><p><strong> 1854<\/strong> The Irish ship Hibernia wrecked near Rehoboth.<\/p><p><strong> 2003<\/strong> The new Charles C.  Carson Center for Mortuary Affairs was dedicated at the Dover Air Force Base.  It counted in its past 66 overseas tragedies and thousands of bodies dating from the Vietnam War.<\/p>";
quotes[29] = "<p><strong> 1936<\/strong> President Franklin Roosevelt  addressed a large gathering of citizens from the rear of his B &amp;amp; O train in Wilmington.<\/p><p><strong> 1945<\/strong> The Final War Loan Drive was held in Delaware with the Victory Train making appearances in Dover and Wilmington. It featured war mementos such as Hermann Goering\'s \$300,000 jewel-encrusted baton.<\/p><p><strong> 1999<\/strong> Scarborough Road, an east-west highway connector, opened in North Dover.<\/p><p><strong> 2004<\/strong> A ground breaking ceremony was held near Georgetown at the Elbert N. and Ann V. Carvel Research and Education Center after their announcement of a \$2 million gift to the U/D.<\/p>";
quotes[30] = "<p><strong> 1739<\/strong> Evangelist Rev. George Whitefield arrived in Lewes from England and was permitted to preach at St. Peters.<\/p><p><strong> 1938<\/strong> The radio play \'War of the Worlds\' caused a nationwide sensation by suggesting earth was being attacked by aliens.  A Millsboro man who lived near St. Mark\'s Episcopal Church ran into church, broke up a prayer meeting and took the people to his home to listen to the radio as it described the destruction of New Jersey.<\/p><p><strong> 1953<\/strong> Radio station WKSB began broadcasting in Milford.<\/p><p><strong> 1982<\/strong> The state sold its share of Farmers Bank to Girard Co. of Philadelphia thus getting out of the bank business.<\/p>";
quotes[31] = "<p><strong> 1918<\/strong> As elections approached, William Howard Taft spoke in the Queen Theater at Wilmington\'s 5th and Market Streets.<\/p><p><strong> 1940<\/strong> Heavyweight boxer Joe Louis came to a rally in Wilmington along with Republican presidential candidate Wendell Wilkie.<\/p><p><strong> 1964<\/strong> President Lyndon Johnson came to the Greater Wilmington Airport and stumped in Wilmington and Dover for Governor Elbert Carvel who was challenging US Senator John J. Williams.<\/p><p><strong> 2000<\/strong> A series of fires in Sussex over 2 days caused \$10 million damage to homes in south Dewey Beach and loss of life of 5 people in Broadkill Beach.  Arson was suspected at Dewey.<\/p>";
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