Echo Historical Museum is in Echo, Oregon “… saw at the river a house. The first building that looked civilized since Laramie.” from A.E. Hines, September 1853 Oregon Trail Diary on Utilla Indian Agency
Category: Events in History
Fourth of July 2022
At 70, there are many memories of the 4th of July, many more is the hope. Have a grand memory, it’s the day for it.
Events in History for Tuesday May 17th 2016
- 1527 Pánfilo de Narváez departs Spain to explore Florida with 600 men – by 1536 only 4 survive
- 1803 John Hawkins & Richard French patent the Reaping Machine
- 1961 Castro offers to exchange Bay of Pigs prisoners for 500 bulldozers
- 1973 Senate Watergate Committee begins its hearings
- 2004 Massachusetts becomes the first U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage
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- 1787 Arthur Phillip sets sails with 11 ships of criminals to Botany Bay, Australia
- 1830 Republic of Ecuador is founded, with Juan Jose Flores as president
- 1934 Great dustbowl storm sweeps across US prairies
- 1940 Winston Churchill says I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears & sweat
- 1981 Pope John Paul II is shot and critically wounded by Turkish gunman Mehemet Ali Agca in St Peter’s Square, Vatican City
- 1989 Approx 2,000 students begin hunger strike in Tiananmen Square, China
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Events in History for Friday May 6th 2016
- 1626 Dutch colonist Peter Minuit buys Manhattan Island from local Indians for 60 guilders worth of trinkets
- 1840 World’s first postage stamp, the Penny Black, is issued in Great Britain
- 1861 Jefferson Davis approves a bill declaring War between the Union & the Confederacy
- 1889 Exposition Universelle (World Fair) opens in Paris with the completed Eiffel Tower
- 1890 Mormon Church renounces polygamy [1006-Truth Restored (Morman pub)]
- 1941 Joseph Stalin became Premier of Russia
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Events in History for Thursday April 28th 2016
Events in History for Thursday April 28th 2016
- 1611 Establishment of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, The Catholic University of the Philippines, the oldest existing university in Asia and the largest Catholic university in the world.
- 1770 British Captain James Cook, aboard the Endeavour, lands at Botany Bay in Australia
- 1789 Fletcher Christian leads a mutiny on HMS Bounty against its captain William Bligh
- 1910 First night air flight by Claude Grahame-White in England
- 1937 1st commercial flight across Pacific operated by Pan Am
- 1977 Andreas Baader & members of Baader-Meinhoff jailed for life after a trial lasting nearly 2 years in Stuttgart, Germany
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Events in History for Sunday April 24th 2016
Events in History for Saturday April 23rd 2016
- 1479 BC Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty).
- 1184 BC The Greeks enter Troy using the Trojan Horse (traditional date).
- 1877 Russo-Turkish War, 1877-1878: Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
- 1898 Spanish-American War: Spain delares war after rejecting US ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba
- 1916 Easter Rising of Irish republicans against British occupation begins in Dublin
- 1967 Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland says in a news conference that the enemy had “gained support in the United States that gives him hope that he can win politically that which he cannot win militarily.”
- 1981 IBM-PC computer introduced
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History for Saturday April 23rd 2016
Events in History for Saturday April 23rd 2016
- 215 BC A temple, built on the Capitoline Hill, is dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene
- 1014 King Brian Boru of Ireland defeats Viking forces at Battle of Clontarf, freeing Ireland from foreign control
- 1597 William Shakespeare’s “The Merry Wives of Windsor” is first performed, with Queen Elizabeth I of England in attendance
- 1861 Robert E. Lee named commander of Virginia Confederate forces (US Civil War)
- 1968 1st decimal coins issued in Britain (5 & 10 new pence, replacing shilling and two-shilling pieces)
- 1984 AIDS-virus identified as HTLV-III (acquired immune deficiency syndrome)
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Events in History for Friday April 22nd 2016
- 1500 Pedro Alvarez Cabral discovers Brazil & claims it for Portugal
- 1903 Highlanders (Yankees) 1st game in New York at Hilltop Park vs Washington Senators, lose 3-1 before 11,950
- 1915 1st military use of poison gas (chlorine, by Germany) in WW I
- 1993 Holocaust Memorial Museum dedicated in Washington D.C.
- 1994 7,000 Tutsi’s slaughtered by Hutu in the stadium at Kibuye, Rwanda
- 2006 243 people are injured in pro-democracy protest in Nepal after Nepali security forces open fire on protesters against King Gyanendra.
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Events in History for Friday April 15th 2016
- 1755 Samuel Johnson’s “A Dictionary of the English Language” published in London.
- 1877 1st telephone installed: Boston-Somerville in Massachusetts
- 1896 First modern Olympic games close in Athens, Greece
- 1912 RMS Titanic sinks at 2:27 AM off Newfoundland as the band plays on
- 1947 Jackie Robinson becomes 1st African-American to play in US major league baseball (Dodgers)
- 2013 Boston Marathon bombings: 3 people are killed and 183 injured after two explosions near the finish line
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