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Show I YKSTERDAY IN IIISTOItY-At'Gf ST 10. 1498 Continent of South America Amer-ica discovered by Columbus. 1675 Greenwich Observatory founded. 17f-Mrtfi of Blf Chark Napier, Na-pier, conqueror of Sclnde; died 1853. 1738-PaiiB first beard the muslo of the "Marseillaise." Unas' composed by Rouifot de'- ( l'Isle, a young officer sta- daouebrb. tloned at Btrasburg. Tho Tuillerles were stormed by the Fronch revolutionists, the royal Swiss guards cut to pieces and the king and bis family imprisoned. 18S1 The remains of MuJ. Andre, British spy hanged by order of Washington, removed to England and interred in Westminster abbey. l&ilJfitBourl .admitted into the Union. IBM Death of Daguerre, Inventor of the daguerreotype; daguer-reotype; born I7H9. 1881 Battle of Wilson's Croek at Springfield, Mo.; Confederates defeated. 1860-John H. Surratt tried for complicity In the assassination of President Lincoln. Jury failed to agree. 1870 Strasuurg Invested by the Germans. 1878 Tornado at Wallinirford, Conn.; demolished 50 buildings; 30 live lost. RH8 Salomon, president of Ilaytt, abdicated. 1S The Sioux lands la Dakota ceded to the government by the Indians. |