The Forksville Covered Bridge is a Burr arch truss covered bridge over Loyalsock Creek in the borough of Forksville, Sullivan County, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It was built in 1850 and is 152 feet 11 inches (46.6 m) in length. The bridge was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The Forksville bridge is named for the borough it is in, which is named for its location at the confluence or "forks" of the Little Loyalsock and Loyalsock Creeks. The Forksville bridge is a Burr arch truss type, with a load-bearing arch sandwiching multiple vertical king posts, for strength and rigidity. The building of the Forksville bridge was supervised by the 18-year-old Sadler Rogers, who used his hand-carved model of the structure. It served as the site of a stream gauge from 1908 to 1913 and is still an official Pennsylvania state highway bridge. The United States Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration uses it as the model of a covered bridge "classic gable roof", and it serves as the logo of a Pennsylvania insurance company. The bridge was restored in 1970 and 2004 and is still in use, with average daily traffic of 224 vehicles in 2009. Despite the restorations, as of 2009 the bridge structure's sufficiency rating on the National Bridge Inventory was only 17.7 percent and its condition was deemed "basically intolerable requiring high priority of corrective action".
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1797:
French Revolutionary Wars: A naval battle off the coast of Brittany between two British frigates and a French ship of the line ended with over 900 deaths when the latter ran aground. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_of_13_January_1797
1898:
The Paris newspaper L'Aurore published "J'accuse...!", an open letter by French writer Émile Zola to Félix Faure, the President of the Republic, exposing the Dreyfus affair. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%27accuse
1910:
The first public radio broadcast, a live performance of the opera Cavalleria rusticana, was sent out over the airwaves from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_of_public_radio_broadcasting
1953:
An article published in Pravda accused some of the most prestigious doctors in the Soviet Union, mostly Jews, of taking part in a vast plot to poison members of the top Soviet political and military leadership. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctors%27_plot
1972:
Ignatius Kutu Acheampong led a coup d'état to overthrow Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia and President Edward Akufo-Addo of Ghana. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignatius_Kutu_Acheampong
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