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Show THIS DATE IN HISTOKV-AUGl'ST 1, Ihl month named in honor of Aujrustus Cawar, 8 B. C, because be-cause he was then created consul, h&TlnK added Egypt to the Roman empire. 1358-Stephen Marcel, revolutionary revolu-tionary lender, slain In Pari. U98-Columbu3, on hta third voyage, discovered Trinidad . t t i - An riirrn flriTlA BUN 1UUUB vi. -M. vnWAIlM. without knowing it to be a new continent. 1714-lMatu of Queen Sophia of England, aged M, the last of the house of Stuart to occupy the Eu"Iish throne. 1798-Kelson defeated the French at Aboukir, known as the battle of the Nile. 1801-Death of Jonathan Edwards, eminent divine. 18 -Emancipation of British slave. 1873 Colorado admitted to the Union., 1878-Deatli of Cardinal Alessandro Franchi, papal sreretarv of state |