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Rise and Shine



1676 Nathaniel Bacon leads an uprising against English Governor William Berkeley at Jamestown, Virginia, resulting in the settlement being burned to the ground. Bacon's Rebellion came in response to the governor's repeated refusal to defend the colonists against the Indians.

1773 Phillis Wheatley, a slave from Boston, publishes a collection of poetry, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, in London.

1807 Aaron Burr is arrested in Mississippi for complicity in a plot to establish a Southern empire in Louisiana and Mexico.

1821 William Becknell leads a group of traders from Independence, Mo., toward Santa Fe on what would become the Santa Fe Trail.

1836 Protestant missionary Dr. Marcus Whitman leads a party to Oregon. His wife, Narcissa, is one of the first white women to travel the Oregon Trail. The Oregon Trail emigrants who chose to follow Stephen Meek thought his shortcut would save weeks of hard travel. Instead, it brought them even greater misery.

1864 Confederate forces under General John Bell Hood evacuate Atlanta in anticipation of the arrival of Union General William T. Sherman's troops.

1870 The Prussian army crushes the French at Sedan, the last battle of the Franco-Prussian War.

1876 The Ottomans inflict a decisive defeat on the Serbs at Aleksinac.

1882 The first Labor Day is observed in New York City by the Carpenters and Joiners Union.

1894 By an act of Congress, Labor Day is declared a national holiday.



JOTD: Someone broke into my house last night and stole my Limbo stick..

How low can you get?

INb4You could try and steal it back but I wouldn't sink to his level.
inb4I agree... You don't want to lower the bar.
inb4I believe there is wiggle room before you get to his level.
inb4Some people really bend over backwards to break the law.