The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1908-11-20

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1522-Tonstall, Bishop of Durham,
printed the first work on arithmetic
in England.
1535-Jacques Cartier discovered the
Saguenay.
1620-The English Pilgrims sailed from
Plymouth in the Mayhower.
1651-Cromwel defeated Charles II. at
Worcester.
1675-The indians under King Philip at
tackled the town of Deerfeld, Mass.
16S2-Delaware was granted to William
Penn by the Duke of York.
1706-The French defeated by Prince
Eugene at Turin.
1724-Sir Guy Carleton, who was COM
mander-in-chief of the British forces
in America, born in Ireland. Died
in England, Nov. 10, 1903.
1726-Beauharnois appointed governor Of
Canada.
1752-First play performed in America
by regular company of players, at
Williamsburgh, Va.
1755-British defeated the French and
Indians in battle of Lake George. -.
Sir Charles Hardy arrived at New
York to succeed De Lancey as gov.
ernor of the province. Public an
nouncement was made Of the exile
of the Acadians from Nova Scotia.
1163-1ndian battle at Bloody Ridge,
Mich.
1765-The subject of medicine fra
taught in America at the College of
Philadelphia.
1767-Charles Townshend, the British
statesman whose bill taxing tea and
other commodities brought about the
American Revolution, died in Eng.
land.
177fFirst Continental Congress assem-
bled in Carpenters hall, Philadel.
phia.
Washington completed the de-
fenses of his army at Wilmington
Del.
Washington and Rochambeau re-
ceiyed in Philadelphia. Americans
victorious in battle of Eutaw Springs.
17S3-Peace made between Great Britain
and the United States by the treaty
of Versailles.
1792-French republicans slaughtered 100
persons in the military prison Of
Albaye, near Paris.
1S04-Nineteen Dominican missions es-
tablished along the California coast
from San Francisco to San Diego.
-. American squadron under Com
modore Preble made its sixth attack
on Tripoli. The American ship In
trepid blown up in the harbor of
Tripoli
1812-United States troops repulsed the
Indians in battle at Fort Harrison.
1S14-The British sloop of war Avon
sunk by the American sloop Wasp.
1829-A grand fete given in Lyons,
France, in honor Of Gen. Lafayette.
1S37-An extra session of the United
States Congress convened to devise
measures to relieve the financial EN-.
UdIIdSSuleutS VI the CUudllTy,
1S54-Grand opera first produced in Gas.
tie Garden, New York.
1S55-The first Hebrew temple in the
Mississippi valley consecrated in st.
Louis.
1S63-Forts Wagner and Gregg, neal
Charleston, bombarded by Gen. Gil.
more.
1S64-President Lincoln issued a proc
lamation of thanksgiving because of
the successes of Farragut at Mobile
and Sherman at Atlanta.
186S-"No Popery" riots in Manchester,
England. ). Steamer Hippocampus
foundered In Lake Michigan, with
loss of thirty-eight lives.
18S3-Last spike driven in the Northern
Pacific railroad, near Gold Greek,
Mont.
1S94-One hundred and thirty-four uni,
Identified dead, victims of the forest
fires, buried at Hinkley, MINI.
1S94-Labor day observed for the first
time as legal holiday throughout
the OnuIeu GtdIeS.
19O4-Telegraphic signals sent around the
world in honor of the opening of the
International Geographical Congress
In Washington.
io06-President Roosevelt ordered re-
formed spelling to be given a thor
ough test by the public printer.
Senator Hepburn attacked the for.
estry policy of President Roosevelt
In the irrigation congress at Boise.
Idaho.
i907-Anti-Japanese riots occurred in
Vancouver, B. Co.. Seven persons
killed and many injured In a Cana.
dian Pacific railway accident, near
Caledon, Ontario.
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