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Subject: Today In History Aug 15
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 12:27:34 EDT


Aug 15, 1519 Panama City, Panama is founded
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Aug 15, 1769 Happy Birthday Napoleon Bonaparte-Emperor of France
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Aug 15, 1057 King MacBeth l of Scotland is slain by the son of King Duncan
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Aug 15, 1620 The Mayflower sets sail from Southampton with 102 Pilgrims
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Aug 15, 1771 Happy Birthday Sir Walter Scott-novelist-"Ivanhoe"
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Aug 15, 1803 Happy Birthday Sir James Douglas, The Father of British Columbia
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Aug 15, 1832 Happy Birthday Lucius O'Brien-painter-from Shanty Bay, Ontario
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Aug 15, 1822 Census shows Upper Canada at 120,000 inhabitants
Lower Canada at 500,000 inhabitants
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Aug 15, 1816 Thomas Douglas-Lord Selkirk captures Fort William, Ontario
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Aug 15, 1812 British Indians massacre the entire American garrison at Fort
Dearborn, Illinois
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Aug 15, 1696 Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville captures Fort Pemaquid, Maine
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Aug 15, 1646 Abraham Martin of Quebec City is named Pilote Royal of New France
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Aug 15, 1534 The Jesuit order of Catholic priests is founded
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Aug 15, 1845 Happy Birthday Walter Crane-painter-"Beauty and the Beast"
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Aug 15, 1840 Waldo Hanchet of Syracuse, New York patents the dental chair
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Aug 15, 1488 Happy Birthday Ferdinand Columbus, son of Christopher Columbus
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Aug 15, 1824 Freed American slaves establish the country of Liberia

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