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Plunketts Creek Bridge No. 3 was a rubble masonry stone arch bridge over Plunketts Creek in Plunketts Creek Township, Lycoming County, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It was built between 1840 and 1875, probably closer to 1840, when the road along the creek between the villages of Barbours and Proctor was constructed. It was named as the third bridge to cross the creek, and was 75 feet (23 m) long. Its arch spanned 44 feet (13 m), and its deck was 18 feet 8 inches (5.69 m) wide. It carried a single lane of traffic, about 450 vehicles a day in 1996. The lumber, leather, and coal industries used the bridge and its road in the 19th century. These almost all left by the early 20th century, and the villages declined. The area the bridge served reverted mostly to second growth forest and it was used to access Pennsylvania State Game Lands and a state pheasant farm. Plunketts Creek Bridge No. 3 was considered "significant as an intact example of mid-19th century stone arch bridge construction", and was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on June 22, 1988. The bridge was demolished after severe flood damage in January 1996, and it was removed from the NRHP in 2002. (Full article...)

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June 22: Teachers' Day in El Salvador

1593 – Ottoman forces were crushingly defeated by the Habsburgs at Sisak (now in Croatia), triggering the Long War.

1807 – The British warship HMS Leopard pursued and attacked the American frigate USS Chesapeake (pictured) in the belief that the latter had deserters from the Royal Navy.

1941 – World War II: As over 4.5 million Axis troops began their invasion of the Soviet Union, the Lithuanian Activist Front started an uprising to liberate Lithuania from Soviet occupation and establish a new government.

1969 – The surface of the Cuyahoga River in Ohio, US, caught on fire, helping to spur the environmental movement.

2009 – Citing declining sales due to the emergence of digital photography, the Eastman Kodak Company announced that it would discontinue sales of the Kodachrome reversal film, concluding its 74-year run as a photography icon.

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