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Classic headlineInclude Your Children When Baking Cookies
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OddlyTrue News Stand — September 7
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Weird history on September 7
1776 First everAccording to American colonial reports, Ezra Lee makes the world's first submarine attack in the Turtle, attempting to attach a time bomb to the hull of HMS Eagle in New York Harbor (no British records of this attack exist).
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1642 First everFirst English Civil War: Royalist and Parliamentarian forces clashed in the Battle of Babylon Hill, after which both sides claimed victory.
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1159 Oddly truePope Alexander III was chosen to succeed of Adrian IV in a disputed election.
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Vintage clipping
Vintage clipping · 1917
The Springdale news (Springdale, Ark.), September 7, 1917
Page 1 · mentions "ghost" · printed on this very day
“The SpUjUgdUllie xews Volume 31 No 19 Springdale Washington County Arkansas Friday September 7 1917 Eijfht Paes COMPANY A STILL IN SPRINGDALE Local Guard Troops Have Received No Orderw to Fn Train Although Expected at An…”
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