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Typhoon Rips Through Cemetery; Hundreds Dead

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Headline 26 of 27 in the Hall of Fame rotation.

Weird history on June 8

1826 Oddly true
In York, Upper Canada, members of the Family Compact destroyed William Lyon Mackenzie's printing press in the Types Riot after Mackenzie accused them of corruption.
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1776 Oddly true
American Revolutionary War: British forces defeated the Continental Army at the Battle of Trois-Rivières, the last battle of the American invasion of Quebec.
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1887 Oddly true
Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', which was his punched card calculator.
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Vintage clipping

Vintage clipping · 1905

The evening world (New York, N.Y.), June 8, 1905, (Evening Edition)

Page 16 · mentions "odd" · printed on this very day

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Image and text from the Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers site.

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