The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-20
TODAY IN HISTORY.
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washington, D. C.)
 Name day: Torpetus. Sun rises at 4:49; sets at I'll.
 14s9-Alonzo de Ojeda sailed from Cadfz on western voyage of discoy- cry. accompanied by Amerigo Vespucci. :. It Is uncertain in what station Amerigo sailed, but he appears to have had a chief share in directing the voyage, and on his return published an amusing &C., count of the country they visited. which, having rapid circulation. he was SUD- posed to be the diseoverer. and it came gradually to be called by his name.
 1506-Christopher Columbus. the dis coverer of the new world, died at Val ladolid. Spain. aged about 70. He had devoted his whole life to the study and accomplishment of his grand enter prise, and its complete success embit- tered the remainder of his days by eX- citing the perfidy and ingratitude of a base and treacherous nation.
 1521-Cortez mustered his army in the great market place of Tezcuco, to manders, assign to each the station where they were to form their camps, in order to invest the city of Mexico. On this day the city was invested with 917 Spaniards and 75.000 Indians which were soon increased to 200,000. He had eighty-six horses. three large iron cannons. fifteen smaller of copper, 1, ,000 Castilia1 pounds of gunpowder and a large quantity of balls and arrows. the strength of this little army having dou- bled by the supplies from Spain and the Antilles. The Spanish troops. in pro- ceeding to their posts, in commencing the siege, had several engagements with the Mexicans. In attempting 10 break the aqueduct of Chapultepec, to cut off the water from the city. a pow erful resistance was made. At one as- sault so thick was the shower of ar rows, darts and stones. which were shot at them that eight Spaniards were killed and more than fifty wounded, and they were with difficulty able to retrea f0 TlaCOnAn where thpV 1774-Pritish Parliament passed an act for transporting Americans to Eng. land for trial.
 1775-Citizens of North Carolina. in convention at Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, declare themselves independent of the British crown; organize a local government and begin preparations foI military defense.
 177S-General Grant, with 1000 Brit ish, made an attempt to surprise La fayette, then posted at Barren Hill. Pa. | with 2,5o0 men. The latter escaped bS masterly retreat.
 1St3-American frigate Congress Captain Smith. captured British brig Jean, ten guns, took out forty tons oi copper and sunk her.
 1S29-Gold discovered in Burke Coun- ty, N C.; quicksilver also found.
 1S35-A convention of the Democratic Party met at Baltimore. and nominated Martin Van Buren for President. 1S36-In Mexico the Congress sus, pended the presidential authority ot Santa Anna while d prisoner in Texas General Rarragan, Vice-President, as sumes executive functions, but dies shortly after.
 1S4S-A treaty of peace made with tn, Navajo Indians and the United States.
 North Carolina secession ordinance adopted.
 Governor Magoffin proclaimed the neutrality of Kentucky.
 1S62-The Seward-Lyons treaty be tween Great Britain and the United States for the suppression of the slave trade ratified.
 1S64-J. Howard. Jr., newspa pel man, arrested and confined in Fort La fayette, charged with the authorship oi the famous bogus proclamation" call ing for troops.
 1S79-St. Patricks Cathedral, New York. dedicated
 1905-Minister Joan Barrett to Pan anna declared yellow fever problem or isthmus greater than that Of adminis, tration or of engineering canal