The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Battle of Chelsea Creek (5/27/1775) - Oct 27th, 2004

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[SAMWolf]

Lord,

Keep our Troops forever in Your care

Give them victory over the enemy...

Grant them a safe and swift return...

Bless those who mourn the lost.
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for all those serving their country at this time.

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THE SECOND ENGAGEMENT
OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR

Forty days after the Battle of Concord and Lexington, the second land and first naval, conflict of the Revolutionary War was fought in Chelsea Creek on May 27, 1775. After the battle of April 19, 1775, the British troops were driven back into Boston. The Patriots put the British and Boston under siege by completely surrounding the town on the land-side denying General Gage access to hay, fresh provisions and other supplies. With the arrival of additional British troops to Boston, came an additional need of supplies. With a determination to completely isolate General Gage's army the Massachusetts Committee of Safety, advised that all animals and provisions be moved further inland beyond the reach of British foraging parties.

Henry Howell Williams was lessee of Noddle and Hog (East Boston) Islands comprising a farm and pasture. Williams did a profitable business with the British prior to April 19th. After April 19th his situation became perplexed. If Williams continued to sell to the British, he would be compromised to the Patriots, and if he refused to sell he would be subject to foraging parties.

On May 27, 1775 Colonel Stark of New Hampshire, received his orders to go to Hog Island and remove all animals in the vicinity. Colonel Stark with three hundred New Hampshire men, joined by volunteers from Chelsea and other towns of Massachusetts, crossed to Hog Island by way of a ford in the creek. Over four hundred sheep were removed from Hog Island plus a number of horses and cows. Thirty volunteers crossed the Hog Island-Noddle's Island inlet, known as Crooked Creek (which was knee deep at the time) and made their way to the Williams Farm. The Williams home and two barns were set afire to prevent use by the British. Many stacks of hay were set ablaze in the field. Horses, cows and beef cattle were moved to Hog Island. What could not be moved, was destroyed to prevent the British getting them.


Col. John Stark

A number of British Marines stationed on the Williams Farm charged Stark's men and a short skirmish ensued. General Gage had sent four-hundred British regulars to reinforce the marines on the island. The British heavy fire forced the Patriots to retreat to a ditch in the marsh. The British advanced slowly in drawn-up lines until they were a few feet from the waiting Americans. The entrenched Patriots opened with a deadly fire, killing and wounding a large number of the British. The British were forced to retreat. The Americans taking advantage of the break in hostilities, withdrew across to Hog Island. The British Regulars on Noddles Island began firing by platoons across the creek at the fleeing Americans.



The Americans hastily cleared all animals and themselves from Hog Island across to Chelsea "Neck". In the meantime the British schooner "Diana" firing her six 4-pounders and twelve swivel guns,was sent up Chelsea Creek to cut off the American retreat from the island. After the Americans were forced back to the mainland the "Diana" tried to put about and head for deep water but the wind had died. The "Diana" found herself in a precarious position, the wind had died, she was in shallow water, the tide was going out and the sun was setting. An attempt was made to tow the schooner by marine barges. About three hundred Patriot reinforcements arrived from Cambridge with two cannons. The Patriots subjected the British Regulars and the "Diana" to heavy musket and cannon fire. Shortly after midnight, the "Diana" was pulled solidly into the mud near the Winnisimmet Ferry. The schooner could not get herself loose no matter what means was tried. The exchange of musket and cannon fire continued. At 3:00 A.M. the schooner rolled on her side, the British crew unable to work her guns, or even stand upright on her deck, abandoned the "Diana".


Col. Israel Putnam

The Americans boarded the "Diana" took her 6-four pound guns, twelve-swivels, contents of the sail locker and what ever else was valuable. Hay was piled under the schooner's stern and under her deck; the schooner was set afire. A ship of the King's Navy was burned and destroyed in Chelsea Creek, under the nose of the British fleet.

This was the first capture and destruction of an enemy war vessel by the Americans in war.

[SAMWolf]

CHELSEA IN THE REVOLUTION 1775

In 1775, two-hundred twenty-five years ago, the tensions between the British and the thirteen American colonies (brought on by the various punitive acts of the British Parliament) had reached the explosive stage. Under the Intolerable Acts (closing the port of Boston, increasing the number of troops in Boston and the naming of General Gates as governor of Massachusetts, putting Boston under virtual martial law) the ferment finally exploded. In mid-April General Gates sent out a force to seize Patriot arms caches in Concord. The British force met with resistance from Patriot militia in both Lexington and Concord and had to retreat, suffering great losses. The Revolution had begun, the time of protest and debate were gone.

While the British were retreating from Concord, Lord Percy was on his way with reinforcements and four baggage wagons loaded with rum, brandy and provisions, he also had a guard of twelve men for the relief of Colonel Smith's hard-pressed troops. The convoy of wagons fell behind the main force. Reverend Phillips Payson, leading some men from his parish in Chelsea, was joined by men from Marblehead. Reverend Payson's detachment of eighteen men on made their way to assist at Lexington. While traveling through Menotomy (Arlington), Reverend Payson encountered the supply wagons. The Americans attacked the soldiers guarding the supply wagons, killing one, wounding several, and taking the whole convoy of prisoners along with their arms and provisions. Two members of the Pratt family, Thomas and John , were listed with the Chelsea men. When General Washington arrived in July, he personally commended Reverend Payson for his act of bravery.



While the British were in possession of Boston, all boats along the Chelsea landings were confiscated to prevent goods of any type being sent into Boston. The British rowed their barges around day and night to prevent any infractions of British law. While prowling at night the British would row into shore and raid the farms for the much needed produce. One morning about daybreak, Deacon Sayles went out to his farm with a hoe in his hands, just about the time a British barge was about to land for a raid on the farm. The British saw the Deacon and thinking he had a gun, beat a hasty retreat.

The Chelsea shores became well guarded against the British raids. The British need for farm produce was great and worth taking chances. Small boats were rigged with dummies to look like men. These boats were pushed ahead of the barge to receive any sentry fire at the landings. On one such occasion, Lieutenant Samuel Pratt was behind a tree when the British pushed one of these boats ashore. Samuel Pratt kept silent until the British were about to land. He then fired his gun and shouted for others to come. The British become so alarmed they pushed off, leaving their boat and dummies behind.

There were many regiments that came to assist in the siege of Boston. Two companies from Nashua, N. H. were encamped in Chelsea. One company was quartered in Prattville from the Watts home at the bend of Washington Avenue and County Road to the area of Washington Park of today. The second company was quartered in the Cary House and near the old Downes salt works near Marginal Street.

There were close to twenty-five slaves from Chelsea that served in the Revolutionary War, including Sifax Cary. Sifax was a slave from the Cary farm who died in the war.

[SAMWolf]

The Battle of Hog Island
May 27, 1775

Excerpted from Diary of the American Revolution, Vol I
compiled by Frank Moore

Pennsylvania Journal


Col. John Stark

MAY 28. —YESTERDAY a party of the American army at Cambridge, to the number of between two and three hundred men, had orders to drive off the live stock from Hog and Noddle's islands. In attempting to carry out these orders, they were attacked by the king's troops. The combat began on Hog island about five o'clock in the afternoon, and continued almost incessantly till midnight. The attack was made with cannon, swivels, and small arms, from an armed schooner, sloop, and eight or ten barges, upon our people, who had small arms only, but were very advantageously posted by Colonel Putnam, who got to them just in season to station and command them properly. He placed them in a ditch up to their wastes in water, and covered by the bank, to their necks. The schooner, sloop, and boats full of men, came within twelve or fifteen rods of them, and gave our people a fine opportunity to place their shot well. About midnight the fire ceased a little, and our people retreated to the main land, where they were soon after joined by Captain Foster with two field-pieces, which were planted on the way of Winnesimit ferry. At daylight this morning, the combat was renewed, and as the schooner passed the ferry way, she was briskly attacked by our people, with the field-pieces and small arms, which soon clearing her deck, she drifted on shore, where our people set fire to her, and she blew up, notwithstanding the utmost endeavors of the people in the boats to tow her off, and save her from destruction. In this they exposed themselves much to our fire, and suffered greatly. When they found the schooner was lost, they with difficulty towed off the sloop, much disabled, and retired to their den; and thus ended the combat. This afternoon our people got out of the wreck twelve four-pounders, six swivels, and every thing else that was valuable, without molestation; they afterwards destroyed or removed from both the islands all the stock, a large quantity of hay, and burned all the barns and houses.



All this was done in sight, and as we may say, under the noses of the whole fleet and army at Boston without molestation. The killed of the enemy (General Gage's crew of enemies to the English constitution) they themselves allow to be more than one hundred, besides wounded; others, who have good opportunity to know, say their killed and wounded exceed three hundred, and I believe they have suffered as much as in their precipitate flight from Lexington on the memorable 19th of April. Our killed none! wounded three! Heaven apparently, and most evidently, fights for us, covers our heads in the day of battle, and shields our people from the assaults of our common enemies. What thanks can speak our gratitude!

These interpositions, and our determined resolutions, may perhaps make our haughty enemies glad to quit their unjust professions for a cooler and more calm retreat, in some distant quarter of the globe; and leave us peaceably to enjoy those rights and liberties which God in our nature has given us, as our inalienable right, and which they are most unjustly endeavoring to wrest from us by violence.

Pennsylvania Journal, June 21, 1775.

Pennsylvania Journal


Col. Israel Putnam

MAY 30. —A CAPTAIN who was lately seized by Admiral Greaves and taken into Boston, has just come out; he says he was at the wharf at Noddle's island when the battle began. The master of the Diana schooner told him, that guns were never better served than the Americans'; that not a shot missed him. One man was carried on board for dead, but the next morning he came to, and had not the least wound about him; others were frightened almost to death. There is an amazing difference in the looks and behavior of the enemy since the battle, from what there was before; before there was nothing but noise and confusion, now all is still and quiet, insomuch that one can hardly perceive that there is any fleet or army there. From the general down to the common soldier, they seem to be in a great panic, and are afraid to go to bed for fear the Yankees will kill them before morning.


Lord Percy

General Putnam, by his ingenious invention and invincible courage, having nearly expended his cannon ball before the king's schooner, took this method to get more from the Somerset in Boston harbor: He ordered parties consisting of about two or three of his men, to show themselves on the top of a certain sandy hill, near the place of action, in sight of the man-of-war, but at a great distance, in hopes that the captain would be fool enough to fire at them. It had the desired effect, and so heavy a fire ensued from this ship and others, that the country round Boston thought the town was attacked. By this he obtained several hundred balls, which were easily taken out of the sand, and much sooner than he could have sent to head-quarters for them. —Constitutional Gazette, Sept. 23.

Pennsylvania Journal, June 28, 1775.

Additional Sources:

www.historycarper.com
www.nhssar.org
www.seacoastsearch.com
www.fortklock.com
www.lombardmaps.com
www.cigarweekly.com
www.americanrevolution.org
www.clas.ufl.edu
www.msad51.org
www.irqpa.org

[SAMWolf]

New Hampshire troops fought the British at Chelsea Creek. This proved to become an important victory for the New Hampshire men on June 17th on the Mystic River shoreline. Stark's Regiment was stationed at Winter Hill (now Somerville) and his headquarters were at the Royal House in Medford. Colonel Reed's 2nd Regiment was camped at Charlestown Neck.

On May 27th, Stark led 300 New Hampshire men from Chelsea at ebb tide in shallow water to Noddles Island and Hog Island (now East Boston, Orient Heights, and Logan Airport). Against British fire they drove off cattle and sheep which the British were using for fresh meat. In the fighting, the British Fleet Commander, Admiral Graves, sent into the Upper Chelsea Creek an armed schooner, Diana. She got mired in the shallow water, drifted to the American shore, and was beached. Graves then sent an armed sloop, the Britannia, to save Diana. Britannia also got stuck in the mud, and was only saved by British sailors desperately pulling her off the sandy shallows with rowboats. The Diana was abandoned and the Americans stripped her of rifles, powder, supplies, money, and cannon, then set her afire.

The part Stark's New Hampshire men played in this affair had fortunate results for New Hampshire on June 17th. After May 27th, Admiral Graves became obsessed with fear of shallow harbor water. For this reason, on the morning of June 17th, he refused General Howe's request to place a warship in the mouth of the Mystic River to cover the beach. In fact, there was enough deep water. Graves said "No" because he did not have the slightest knowledge of the river's shoals and mud flats. Though Admiral of the American station for over a year, he had failed to take soundings of the river.

[SAMWolf]

Here are the recommended holiday mailing dates for military mail this year:

For military mail addressed TO APO and FPO addresses, the mailing dates are:

• Parcel Post - November 13
• Space Available - November 27
• Parcel Airlift - December 4
• Priority Mail, First Class cards and letters - Mailing date is December 11 to all locations
  • EXCEPT for locations starting with ZIP 093. For all locations starting with ZIP 093 the mailing date is December 6.
• Express Mail - December 20 to locations where Express Mail service is available. Check with your local post office to determine which APO/FPO addresses can receive Express Mail. Note: This service is not available to ships.

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For military mail FROM APO and FPO addresses, the mailing dates are:

• Space Available - November 20
• Parcel Airlift - December 4
• Priority Mail, First Class cards and letters - December 11
• Express Mail - December 18 from APO/FPO addresses where Express Mail can be accepted. Check with your local military post office to determine if they can accept Express Mail. Note: This service is not available from ships.

Thanks for the information StayAtHomeMother

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[SAMWolf]

Good Night, Snippy.

[snippy_about_it]

Heaven apparently, and most evidently, fights for us, covers our heads in the day of battle, and shields our people from the assaults of our common enemies. What thanks can speak our gratitude!

They wrote so beautifully back then.

Good thread Sam, thanks and good night.

[Aeronaut]

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[alfa6]

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[Professional Engineer]

Good morning ladies. Flag-o-gram mit "Chelsea".

[Professional Engineer]

Too early. Need coffee. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[Professional Engineer]

By this he obtained several hundred balls, which were easily taken out of the sand, and much sooner than he could have sent to head-quarters for them.

ROFL!! He didn't have to listen to the QM saying, "and why do you need these cannon balls?".

[The Mayor]

October 27, 2004

Letters To God

Read: Psalm 65:1-8

O You who hear prayer, to You all flesh will come. —Psalm 65:2

Bible In One Year: Jeremiah 12-14; 2 Timothy 1

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Every year thousands of letters addressed to God find their way to a post office in Jerusalem. One letter, addressed to "God of Israel," requested assistance in getting a job as a bulldozer driver. Another said: "Please help me to be happy, to find a nice job and a good wife—soon." One man asked forgiveness for stealing money from a grocery store when he was a child.

But were those heartfelt requests heard by God? The psalmist said that God is the one who hears prayer (Psalm 65:2). Whether we say our prayers silently, voice them aloud, or write them on paper, they go directly to God. But He does not answer every request as we would wish. Our petitions may be self-serving (James 4:3), or sin may be blocking our fellowship with Him (Psalm 66:18).

More than giving us what we want, the Lord knows our deepest needs, and He wants us to discover the joy of His presence each day. Because of our faith in Christ, praying becomes our means of communion with God, not just a list of things we want from Him.

In His wisdom, God hears all our prayers. In His grace, He offers forgiveness for all our sins. In His love, He gives us eternal and abundant life through His Son. —David McCasland

Teach me to pray, Lord, teach me to pray;
This is my heart-cry day unto day.
I long to know Thy will and Thy way;
Teach me to pray, Lord, teach me to pray. —Reitz
© 1925, 1953 Broadman Press

God hears more than our words—He listens to our heart.

[Soaring Feather]

Good morning, everyone.

[Soaring Feather]

Nice Flag-o-gram!! LOL

GM, PE. I am getting coffee.

[The Mayor]

Mornin Feather!

[Professional Engineer]

Hi miss Feather.

The pot just finished here. O joyous morning!

[PAR35]

There were close to twenty-five slaves from Chelsea that served in the Revolutionary War, including Sifax Cary. Sifax was a slave from the Cary farm who died in the war.

[Valin]

On This Day In History


Birthdates which occurred on October 27:
1728 James Cook captain/explorer, discovered Sandwich Islands
1782 Niccolo Paganini Genoa It, composer/violin virtuoso (Princess Lucca)
1811 Issac Merrit Singer inventor (1st practical home sewing machine)
1844 Klas Arnoldson Sweden, politician/pacifist (Nobel 1908)
1858 Theodore Roosevelt (R) 26th Pres (1901-09) (Nobel 1906)
1872 Emily Post authority on social behavior, writer (Etiquette)
1910 Fred de Cordova film/TV producer (The Tonight Show)
1910 Jack Carson Manitoba Canada, actor (Star is Born, Mildred Pierce)
1911 Leif Erickson Calif, actor (Invaders from Mars, On the Waterfront)
1914 Dylan Thomas Swansea, Wales, poet (Child's Christmas in Wales)
1917 Oliver Tambo leader of African National Congress
1918 Paul Dixon Earling Iowa, Ohio talk show host (Paul Dixon Show)
1920 Nanette Fabray San Diego Calif, actress (One Day at a Time)
1922 Ralph Kiner HR hitter (Pitts Pirates)/sportscaster (NY Mets)
1923 Roy Lichtenstein US, Pop art painter; painted comic book panels
1923 Ruby Dee Cleve Ohio, actress (Raisin in the Sun, Cat People)
1925 Mary Kay Steans Glendale Calif, actress (Mary Kay & Johnny)
1926 HR Haldeman former White House Chief of Staff-Watergate figure
1928 Kyle Rote football half-back (NY Giants 1951-61)
1932 Sylvia Plath American poet (Bell Jar)
1933 Floyd Cramer La, country pianist (Last Date, On the Rebound)
1939 John Cleese comedian/actor (Monty Python, Fawlty Towers)
1940 Lee Greenwood country singer (God Bless the USA)
1945 Carrie Snodgress Park Ridge Ill, actress (Diary of Mad Housewife)
1946 Steven R Nagel Canton Ill, USAF/astr (STS 51-G, STS 61-A, STS 37)
1946 Terry J Hart Pittsburgh Penn, astronaut (STS 41C)
1953 Michael A Baker Memphis Tenn, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut (STS 43)
1958 Simon Le Bon rocker (Duran, Duran-Hungry Like the Wolf)
1963 Deborah Moore London England, actress (Danielle=-Day of Our Lives)
1963 Marla Maples Dalton Ga, model/Donald Trump's main squeeze

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Deaths which occurred on October 27:
0925 Rhazes, [Abu Bakr Mohammed ibn Zakarijja al-Razi), Persian, dies
1439 Albrecht II von Habsburg, king of Bohemia/Hungary/Germany, dies at 42
1505 Ivan III The Great Russian tsar (1462-1505), dies
1553 Michael Servetus Spanish physician burns at stake for heresy
1659 Marmaduke Stevenson Quaker in Boston, hanged
1944 Iman J Van de Bosch, Belgian resistance fighter, dies
1955 Clark Griffith baseball player/manager (NY Yankees), dies at 85
1962 Fatso Marco comedian (Milton Berle Show), dies at 56
1964 Sammee Tong actor (Bachelor Father, Mickey), dies at 63
1988 S.B. Fuller founder of Fuller products, dies at 83
1990 Elliott Roosevelt son of FDR, dies at 80
1990 Xavier Cugart bandlander, dies from heart failure at 90
1996 Morey Amsterdam actor/comedian (Dick Van Dyke Show) at 74

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Reported: MISSING in ACTION

1965 MOORE DENNIS A.---LITTLETON CO.
[02/12/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE IN 98]
1966 JOHNSON DALE A.---ELIZABETHTON TN.
1967 BLACK JON D.---JOHNSON CITY TN.
[02/16/68 RELEASED]
1967 CONNER LORENZA---CARTERSVILLE GA.
1967 FLYNN JOHN P.---CLEVELAND OH.
[03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV,"DECEASED MARCH 5, 1997"]
1967 STIRM ROBERT L.---SAN FRANCISCO CA.
[03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE AND WELL 98]
1967 TEMPERLY RUSSELL E.---BOSTON MA.
03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE AND WELL 98]
1968 EDMUNDS ROBERT CLIFTON JR---RICHMOND VA.
[REMAINS RETURNED 06/88]
1969 HERRICK JAMES W.---PANDORA IA.
1972 ANDERSON EVELYN---QUINCY MI.
NOT ON OFFICIAL DIA LIST, REM RET 11/72]
1972 KOSIN BEATRICE---FORT WASHAKIE WY.
[NOT ON OFFICIAL DIA LIST.]
1972 MATTIX SAMUEL A.---CENTRALIA WA.
[03/28/73 RELEASED BY PL]
1972 OPPEL LLOYD D.---CANADA
03/28/73 RELEASED BY PL, ALIVE 99]

POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by
the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.

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On this day...
0097 To placate the Praetorians of Germany, Nerva of Rome adopts Trajan, the Spanish-born governor of lower Germany.
0625 Honorius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1644 2nd Battle at Newbury: King Charles I beats parliamentary armies
1787 Federalist letters start appearing in NY newspapers
1795 Treaty of San Lorenzo, provides free navigation of Mississippi
1809 President James Madison orders the annexation of the western part of West Florida. Settlers there had rebelled against Spanish authority
1858 RH Macy & Co opens 1st store, (6th Ave-NYC) Gross receipts $1106
1871 Boss Tweed (William Macy Tweed), Democratic leader of Tammany Hall, arrested after NY Times exposed his corruption
1880 Theodore Roosevelt marries Alice Lee, on his 22nd birthday
1886 Musical fantasy "Night on Bald Mountain," performed in Russia
1893 Hurricane hits coast between Savannah Ga & Charleston SC
1904 World's 1st subway, the IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit), opens in NYC, subway/bus fare is set at one nickel
1913 Pres Wilson says US will never attack another country
1916 1st published reference to "jazz" appears (Variety)
1919 Axeman of New Orleans claims last victim
1920 League of Nations moves headquarters in Geneva
1920 Westinghouse radio station in East Pittsburgh, KDKA begins
1922 1st commemoration of Navy Day
1924 The Uzbek SSR forms
1925 Water skis patented by Fred Waller
1931 Chuhei Numbu of Japan, sets then long jump record at 26' 2"
1938 DuPont announces its new synthetic fiber will be called "nylon"
1941 Chicago Daily Tribune editorialize there will not be war with Japan
1947 "You Bet Your Life", with Groucho Marx, premieres on ABC radio
1948 Israel recaptures Nizzanim in the Negev
1954 B O Davis Jr becomes 1st black general in USAF
1954 Walt Disney's 1st TV show, "Disneyland," premieres on ABC
1959 Rare Pacific hurricane kills 2,000 in Western Mexico
1960 Singer Ben E King records "Spanish Harlem" & "Stand By Me"
1961 American Basketball League starts play
1961 Outer Mongolia & Mauritania become the 102nd & 103rd members of UN
1967 4 people from Baltimore pour blood on selective service records
1967 Expo '67 closes in Montreal, Canada
1969 Ralph Nader sets up a consumer organization known as Nader's Raiders
1969 St Vincent & the Grenadines gains associated status with Britain
1971 Republic of the Congo becomes Republic of Zaire
1973 Alabama sets offensive record (828 yds), beats Virginia Tech 77-6
1977 NASA launches space vehicle S-200
1978 Begin & Sadat win the Nobel Peace prize
1978 President Carter signs Hawkins-Humphrey full employment bill
1979 St Vincent & the Grenadines becomes independent of UK (Nat'l Day)
1979 Voluntary Euthanasia Society publishes how-to-do-it suicide guide
1980 Dave Gryllis sets world bicycle speed record of 94.37 kph
1981 Andrew Young, former UN Ambassador, elected mayor of Atlanta, Georgia
1982 China announces its population at 1 billion people plus
1982 IBM ROM is capable of EGA graphics
1984 Wash State's Rueben Mayes sets col football rec of 357 yards rushing
1985 KC Royals beat St Louis Cards, 4 games to 3 in 82nd World Series
1985 Thieves steal 9 paintings, including 5 Monet's & 2 Renoir's
1986 NY Mets beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in 83rd World Series
1987 South Korean voters overwhelmingly approved a new constitution
1988 "ET" released to home video (14 million presold)
1988 Larry Flynt paid hitman $1M to kill Hefner, Guccione & Sinatra
1991 Minn Twins beat Altanta Braves 1-0 in 10 to win World Series in 7
1997 US releases a redesigned $50 bill
1998 Hurricane Mitch, one of the strongest Atlantic storms ever recorded, began its four-day siege of Central America, causing at least 10,000 deaths.

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Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

Cuba : Discovery Day (1492)
Iran : Imam Reza's Birthday
St Vincent Islands : Statehood Day (1969)
US : Navy Day (1775)
US : Mother-in-Law's Day (Sunday)
National Magic Week (Day 3)
Computer Learning Month

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Religious Observances
RC : Comm of St Frumentius, bishop; founded Ethiopian church
Feast of St. Claudia, Pilate's wife (Eastern Church).

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Religious History
1553 In Switzerland, Spanish physician Michael Servetus, 42, convicted for promulgating anti-Trinitarianism, was condemned for heresy and blasphemy, and burned at the stake in Geneva.
1771 Landing at Philadelphia, pioneer bishop Francis Asbury, 26, first arrived in America. He had been sent from England by John Wesley to oversee Methodism in the American colonies, and stayed all of his remaining 45 years, till his death in 1816.
1889 The first Lithuanian Church in America was organized in Plymouth (near Wilkes-Barre), PA. Rev. Alexander Burba was its first pastor.
1963 One month before his death at age 65, English apologist C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter: 'Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life.'
1977 American missionary and apologist Francis Schaeffer wrote in a letter: 'The unforgivable sin is not something done once and for all and which when done is without remedy. it is the constant, unremitting resistance of the gracious work of the Holy Spirit for salvation.'

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.

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Thought for the day :
"The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius."

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Childrens Impression of Love...
THE PERSONAL QUALITIES NECESSARY TO BE A GOOD LOVER

"One of you should know how to write a check. Because, even if you have tons of love, there is still going to be a lot of bills." (Ava, 8)

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Children's stories that never made it...
Charles Manson Bedtime Stories.

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Handy Latin Phrases...
Purgamentum init, exit purgamentum.

Garbage in, garbage out.

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Redefining the English language
Flabbergasted (adj.)
Appalled over how much weight you have gained.