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Subject: Today In History Aug 31
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 06:37:11 EDT
Aug 31, Happy Birthday Mom
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Aug 31, 1699 John Bunyan dies at 59-writer-poet-teacher " Pilgrims Progress"
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Aug 31, 1666 Mohawk Chief Agariata attends peace conference in Quebec between
Iroquois and the French. During the dinner Governor de Proville asks, if
anyone knew who killed his son a few months earlier? Agariata, brags he did. The
governor has Agariata hung. This ends the peace process and the governor leads
French troops against the Mohawks himself.
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Aug 31, 1807 Happy Birthday John Young, second Governor General of Canada
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Aug 31, 1814 John Sherbrooke captures Castine, Maine with a force from Halifax
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Aug 31, 1721 New France harvest 216,000 pounds of tobacco
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Aug 31, 1673 All beggars in Quebec ordered to leave
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Aug 31, 1666 Census of New France shows a population of 3,418
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Aug 31, 1057 Leofric dies, husband of Lady Godiva
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Aug 31, 1778 British kill 17 Stockbridge Indians in the Bronx
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Aug 31, Festal Day/Order of Eastern Star-US
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Aug 31,1422 King Henry V of England dies at 34 of dysentery
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Aug 31, 1724 King Louis of Spain dies at 17
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Aug 31, 1385 English King Richard ll invades Scotland with 80,000 men
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Aug 31, 1742 Grasshopper swarms destroy crops in Pennsylvania
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Aug 31, 1842 Nuts and Bolts machine patented by Micah Rugg (who probably had
a screw loose)
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