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Show YESTERDAY IN H1STOKY-MAY 4. IBM Peter Minuit, director gen- JK trol of New Netherlands, yjlfSJfc bow New York, purchased y9 gT Manhattan Islanl from the t 4f Indians for the Putch West WVJf India company for the sum 55. of sixty guilders or twenty- ' A. four dollars. The island, flf- WmS-zSfi teen miles in length and from 'iMraWf one-quarter to two miles v -wide, comprises about SB,- m. mtonoston COO acres. 174S-Death of Louis XIII, king of France; born im. ITSi-Blrth of John James Audubon, famous naturalist; nat-uralist; author "Birds of America;" died 1851. 17-Blrth of William H. Prescott, American historian; his-torian; died 18M. 1814 Napoleon arrives at Elba. IBM -Minnesota admitted to the Union. 1861 Lincoln calls for 42,000 volunteers. 1884 After four days' fighting, Hooker retires acroHS the Rappahannock. 186a-Surrender of Gen. Dick Taylor In the Mississippi Mis-sissippi department. 1672 Horace Greeley nominated for the presidency presi-dency by the Liberal Republicans. 1678 Death of Dr. Llringstone, the African explorer, ex-plorer, In Central Africa; born 1818. 1865 Death in Son Francisco of Uen. L McDowell, U. 8. A., aged 67. |