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1979: Vermont is officially free of Bovine Tuberculosis
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1970: Kids come to Burlington to see Trooper Yancy and be on TV
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1780: Athens gets what it's after...recognition in the form of a charter
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1801: A marriage in trouble in the Weekly Wanderer
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1864: It's the start of Vermont's deadliest Civil War battle
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1868: Charles Shattuck Hill works with concrete
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1802: Luther Tucker, a farmer's best friend, is born
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1799: Bridport's first ear-mark is recorded
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1917: Fort Ethan Allen celebrates receiving a motorized ambulance
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1794: Nathaniel Colver, abolitionist, is born in Orwell
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1846: Henry Willard Denison, Japanese diplomat, born in Guildhall
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1928: 12,000 people show up at Burlington's City Hall
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11938: Grace Pugh gets her pilot's license
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1917: Local boys fill in the labor gaps from World War I
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1834: A future lawyer & writer is born in Waterville
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1899: A fire takes most of Northfield's East Street
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1911: Rutland doesn't measure up
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1877: Vermont gets hit by a tornado & hail
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1772: The beginning of the 20-year Guilford War
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1916: First Norman Rockwell cover on Saturday Evening Post
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1931: Planting a tree on the statehouse lawn for a nurse
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1948: Alexander Copley passes away
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1903: A doctor, chauffeur, and a dog head out on an adventure
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1944: The Trapp Family leases CCC Dorms from the state
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1955: There's an underwear thief in Winooski
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1839: A man of many words is born in Fairlee
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2006: Poultney under glass - 1,000 pictures
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1917: World War I voluntary censorship begins
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1833: James Sloane is born in Topsham
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1794: Trouble at the British Block House in Grand Isle
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1820: George Frederick Houghton is born in Guilford

 


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