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rockylizard


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Gday...

1803  -     The United States purchases the Louisiana Territory from France. 

1831  -     Captain Collet Barker, original discoverer of the site for Adelaide, is killed by indigenous Australians. 

1900  -     Legendary train driver Casey Jones is killed in a locomotive accident. 

1991  -     Approximately 140,000 people are killed as a powerful cyclone hits Bangladesh. 

2006  -     Two Tasmanian miners are found alive after being trapped underground for five days.

Cheers - John



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