Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-03-20
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NOT AT ALL AN UNLUCKY DAY.
Friday Has Been Prolific I'm Happy Event

NOT AT ALL AN UNLUCKY DAY.
Friday Has Been Prolific In Happy Events.
He was an Englishman, rs history
informs us, who, being iconoclastically
inclined and the enemy of superstition,
risked both his fortune and his life,
and lost both, in an experiment to
prove fallacious the moss.grown super
stition concerning Friday. 1t is relat-
ell of this Englishman that he laid the
keel of his vessel on a Friday, launch
ed her on Friday, christened her
Friday, and took for her skipper
named Friday, and never was heard of
after that.
And yet, in spite of superstition,
Friday is not an unlucky day. In
fact, it can be proved by the most i'm
portant happenings in the history of
this and other countries that Friday is
the most fortunate day in the week.
For 13 years past l have been collat-
ing such important events as have
happened on Fridays. Thirteen
years ago l put in print short list /;
but it is now complete. / venture to
say that stronger proof cannot be sub
mitted and ask you to cut it out and
paste it in your scrapbook, where you
may find it when your heart weakens
with an attack of superstition.
Friday, August 81, 1892, Christopher
Columbus first sailed upon his great
voyage of discovery from Palos, in
Spain. September II, which happen
ed upon Friday, while in midocean,
to the CONSERVATION of his officers and
men, the needle of the compass fuctua-
ted and fell off in an unexplainable
manner, and it was then that Colum-
bus lost all but faith in the enterprise.
1t was Friday October II, 1892, that
Columbus first discovered land. Fri
day, January 4, 1893, he sailed on his
return to Spain, where he landed in
safety. Friday, November %, 1893,
he arrived ut Hispaniola on his Sec
ond voyage to America. 1t was Fri
day, June 13, 1494, that he discovered
the continent OF America.
Friday, March S, 1496, Henry VIII,
of England gave John Cabot his com.
mission which led to the discovery of
North America. This is the first
American state paper in England.
Friday, September 7, 1905, Menen-
dez found St. Augustine, the oldest
town in the United States by 40 years.
Friday, November 10, 1920, the
Mayfower, with the Pilgrims, made
the harbor of Proviucetown, and on
the same day signed the august COM
pact, the forerunner Of our present
constitution, Friday, December 20,
1920, the Pilgrims made their final
landing on Plymouth Rock.
George Washington was born Friday,
February %, 1882, in Westmoreland
county, Virginia, near the banks of the
Potomac river.
Bunker Hill was seized and fortified
Friday, June 16, 1776.
Friday, October 7, 1777, the surren-
der of Saratoga was made, which had
such power and influence in inducing
France to declare herself in favor Of
our cause.
Friday, September %, 1880, Arnold's
treason was laid bare, which saved us
and our country from destruction.
The surrender Of Yorktown, the
crowning glory of the American army,
occurred Friday, October IA, 1881.
Friday, July 4, 1776, the motion
was made in congress by John Adams
and seconded by Richard Henry Lee
that the United Colonies were, aud Of
right ought to DO, ~1rtc nnf THue-
pendent.
The first Masonic lodge in America
was organized Friday, November q,
1921. -.
Bismarck, Gladstone and Disraeli
were horn on Friday.
Friday, April s, 1916, the first known
newspaper advertisement was publish
ed in The Imperial Intelligencer, in
England. -.
Thomas Sutton, who saved England
from the Spanish Armada was born on
Friday.
Friday, July /, 1926, General La
fayette was welcomed to Boston and
feasted by the Freemasons and citizens,
and attended at the laying of the cor
ner stone at Bunker Hill Of the monu-
ment erected TO perpetuate the remem-
brance Of the defenders Of the rights
and liberties Of America.
Friday, December ., 1871, the Alba
ny, IN. W library was founded. =,
The Panama railroad was completh
on Friday.
Friday, June 80, 146l, Louis WI
humbled the French mobiles.
Charles, "the Bold" of Burgundy,
richest sovereign of all EuroT, was
born Friday, January -. :,
The Hudson river was dscoVcreu
on Friday, March 25, 1909;
Friday, March IS, l77G.the "stamp
act" was repealed in England.
Friday, November 2s'!S14, the iirst
newspaper ever printe- by steam, the
London Times was p.nted.
Alexander Won Humboldt, in climb.
ing Chimborazo, reched an altitude of
19,2OO feet on Friay, June y, 1902.
Friday, Janusy 13, 1775, General
Winfield Scott fas born in Dinwiddie
county, Va.
Friday, MAJ II, 1886, Gabriel Fab
renbeit. usually regarded as the invent
or Of the common merurial lhermom-
eter, was Jorn. 1t was he who frst
noticed that water boils at difisr-
ent degrees of temperature, G.
cordipr to the weight ofthe atmosphe
ic column resting upoI it-that is, G
reo,,ires less heat to make it boil OIL
80 summit than at tie foot of high
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