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Walter Pearson's Blog – September 2011 Archive (5)

Friday! History, Music, Space, Cinema, Sports, Quotes, More!

On This Date In 1399 Henry Bolingbroke was proclaimed King Henry IV of England upon the abdication of King Richard II the day previous.
On This Date In 1776 In a letter to his nephew, Lund Washington, plantation manager of Mount Vernon, General George Washington wrote of his…
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Added by Walter Pearson on September 30, 2011 at 1:14pm — 2 Comments

Friday! History, Music, Cinema, Sports, Quotes, More!

On This Date In 1779 The Battle of Flamborough Head was a small naval battle that took place in the North Sea off the coast of Yorkshire between an American Continental Navy squadron led by John Paul Jones and the two British escort vessels protecting a large merchant convoy. In the engagement, USS Bonhomme Richard and Pallas, with USS Alliance, captured HMS Serapis and Countess of…
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Added by Walter Pearson on September 23, 2011 at 12:47pm — No Comments

Friday! History, Music, Space, Cinema, Sports, Quotes, More!

On This Date In 1620 The Mayflower

sailed from Plymouth, England, bound for the New World with 102 passengers. The

ship was headed for Virginia, where the colonists-half religious dissenters and

half entrepreneurs-had been authorized to settle by the British crown. However,

stormy weather and navigational errors forced the Mayflower off course,

and…
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Added by Walter Pearson on September 16, 2011 at 12:10pm — No Comments

Friday! History, 9/11, Music, Cinema, Sports, Quotes, More!

On This Date In 1739 The Stono Rebellion, in the colony of South Carolina, was a slave rebellion begun on Sunday, September 9, 1739. It was the largest slave uprising in the British mainland colonies prior to the American Revolution. One of the earliest known organized rebellions in the present United States, it was led by native Africans who were Catholic and likely from the kingdom of Kongo, and some of whom spoke…

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Added by Walter Pearson on September 9, 2011 at 12:38pm — No Comments

Friday! History, Jerry Lewis/MDA, Music, Cinema, Sports, Quotes, More!

On This Date In 31 B.C. At the Battle of Actium, off the western coast of Greece, Roman leader Octavian won a decisive victory against the forces of Roman Mark Antony and Cleopatra, queen of Egypt. Before their forces suffered final defeat, Antony and Cleopatra broke though the enemy lines and fled to Egypt, where they would commit suicide the following year.…
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Added by Walter Pearson on September 2, 2011 at 9:13am — No Comments

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