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Subject: [Q-R] Today in History Oct 24
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 10:59:57 EDT
Oct 24, 1821 Elias Boudinot second President of the United States in
Congress Assembled dies at age 81, he was preceded by John Hanson, first President of
the United States
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Oct 24 Is United Nations Day
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Oct 24, 1621 Eustache Martin is baptized this day,son of Abraham Martin and
Marguerite Langlois,he is the first French child born in North America. The
Plains of Abraham are named after his father
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Oct 24, 1788 Happy Birthday Sarah Josepha Hale, author of " Mary Had a Little
Lamb"
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Oct 24, 1836 The "match' is patented
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Oct 24 In the US its Francis E. Willard Day/ Temperance Day
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