Lost and Found – October 9th Edition

What to remember about October 9th…

• 1635  Religious dissident Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony; he and his followers go on to found Rhode Island and the 1st Baptist church in America
• 1701  Collegiate School of Connecticut is chartered in Old Saybrook; later renamed later as Yale University
• 1888  Washington Monument opens to the public for the 1st time; construction began in 1848
• 1936  Hoover Dam begins generating electricity for California
• 1967  Communist rebel and murderer Ernesto “Che” Guevara de la Serna is executed by the Bolivian army
• 2001  Second mailing of letters in the Anthrax Attacks
• 2009  Awards committee announces that President Barack Hussein Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize

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