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Main Discussion Area => In Memoriam, Happy Birthday => Topic started by: mshray on September 05, 2008, 11:17:11 AM

Title: Happy 234th birthday to the first Congress
Post by: mshray on September 05, 2008, 11:17:11 AM

The First Continental Congress (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Continental_Congress) convened on this date in 1774, in Philladelphia.  Delegates from each colony except Georgia met in oppostition to the Intolerable Acts of Parlianment, which were themselves a reaction to the Boston Tea Party.  The very earliest idea of a cohesive group of Americans was born here.

 ;)  Just feeling really civic minded these days.

ETA: as a historian I would be remiss to fail mentioning that Sept 5th is also the anniversary of:

- The start of the Reign of Terror in the French Revolution
- The Treaty of Portsmouth which ended the Ruso-Japanese war (& garnered Teddy Roosevelt one of the first Nobel Peace Prizes).
- The Battle of the Marne in WWI
- The Black September hostage crisis at the Munich Olympics

Title: Re: Happy 334th birthday to the first Congress
Post by: urth on September 05, 2008, 11:56:51 AM

You did mean to type "234th", right?

Title: Re: Happy 334th birthday to the first Congress
Post by: mshray on September 05, 2008, 12:19:21 PM

Quote from: urth on September 05, 2008, 11:56:51 AM

You did mean to type "234th", right?

right!

Title: Re: Happy 234th birthday to the first Congress
Post by: SFGuy on September 06, 2008, 01:33:03 AM

Wow, only 68 years older then John McCain.

Title: Re: Happy 234th birthday to the first Congress
Post by: Gazoo on September 06, 2008, 08:53:37 AM

Quote from: SFGuy on September 06, 2008, 01:33:03 AM

Wow, only 68 years older then John McCain.

Ba-dum-TISH!