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Post by friar82 on Mar 13, 2021 3:21:37 GMT -5
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1644 *"It is ordered by this Court that the yland comonly called Aquethneck shall be from henceforth called the Isle of Rhods or Rhod-Island."
1657 *The Rhode Island General Assembly, responding to a letter from the United Colonies warning of the dangers of Quakerism, reminds the Massachusetts General Court of the right of liberty of conscience. [1657/'58].
1777 *The Rhode Island row galley Spitfire runs aground and is burned to prevent capture by the British.
1781 *George Washington visits Providence. All the ships in the harbor are illuminated.
1931 *Governor Case signs the Warwick City Charter act, creating the state's seventh city.
1933 *Nine days after a bank holiday was declared by Governor Theodore F. Green, eight Reserve Member Banks and two commercial banks in Providence re-open for business.
1996 *The Narragansett Times reports that the State has purchased the last 4.33-acre parcel between Scarborough Beach and Black Point. Rhode Island now owns the entire stretch.
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Post by friar82 on Mar 16, 2021 6:33:20 GMT -5
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1638 *The first Baptist Church in the New World is organized in Providence by Roger Williams.
1641 *A "state" seal is ordered: a sheaf of arrows, with the motto, "Amor vincent omnia." This was an official seal for the town of Newport.
*In general court at Portsmouth, a "State" seal is ordered for the colony: a sheaf of arrows, with the motto, "Amor vincent omnia" ("Love conquers all").
1676 *Warwick is attacked and destroyed by Indians. Only one house, Thomas Greene's "stone castle," remains standing.
1789 *The Providence Association of Mechanics and Manufacturers, a proto labor union, is chartered by the Rhode Island General Assembly.
1883 *The large hotel and mammoth clam-house at Rocky Point are both lost to fire.
1931 *Four patients and an orderly are killed when fire breaks out in the No. 3 cottage at the private sanitarium of Dr. W.L. Bates on Jamestown.
1973 *A federal court finding that striking Rhode Islanders are eligible for unemployment benefits is partially overturned by the United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit, and sent back to federal court for further hearings
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Post by friar82 on Mar 17, 2021 5:54:11 GMT -5
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1776 *The British evacuate Boston. Esek Hopkins returns to Providence after his victory in Nassau, but his vulnerably placed fleet is immobilized in the upper bay by British ships. [Hopkins' error in the stationing of his fleet will later cost him his command].
1844 *The Right Reverend William Tyler is consecrated the first Bishop of the Hartford diocese, with residence at Saints Peter and Paul Church in Providence.
1907 *Governor (1945-'50) John Orlando Pastore is born in Providence.
1917 *Magician Harry Houdini thrills a crowd of 80,000 in Exchange Place as he escapes from a strait jacket while hanging upside down from his ankles outside an upper floor of the Brownell Building.
1966 *Governor John H. Chafee tours the unfinished Masonic Temple after several proposals advocate converting it to either a television studio or a cultural center. Chafee is unconvinced, and weighs tearing it down if the money can be found for demolition.
1973 *The Providence College basketball team, coached by Dave Gavitt, wins the N.C.A.A. Eastern Regional Championship by defeating the University of Maryland 103-89 before 10,400 fans in Charlotte, North Carolina. Ernie DiGregorio, Providence's All American Guard, is named Most Valuable Player, scoring 30 points, followed by Kevin Stacom with 24, Marvin Barnes with 19, Nehru King with 15, Fran Costello with 8, and Charlie Crawford with 7 points.
2000 *A jury convicts Providence deputy tax assessor Rosemary Glancy on corruption charges stemming from the Operation Plunder Dome investigation.
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Post by friar82 on Mar 18, 2021 7:11:54 GMT -5
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1848 *Noted naval architect and America's Cup winner N.G. Herreshoff is born in Bristol.
1895 *A new city government is organized for the City of Central Falls.
1976 *Unable to find funding to satisfy a $1.4 million debt, parent company Bayside Recreation Corporation auctions off Crescent Park Amusement Park. The only bidder, Owen B. Landman, gets the land for $300,000 and the equipment for $190,000.
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Post by friar82 on Mar 19, 2021 5:05:23 GMT -5
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1757 *Hopkinton is taken from Westerly and incorporated as a town.
1896 *The original Masonic temple on Dorrance Street in Providence is destroyed by fire at a loss of $260,000.
1951 *A month-long strike by the Textile Workers of America comes to an end, and operations resume at sixteen Rhode Island woolen-worsted textile mills.
1966 *At Fox Point in Providence, the new 2,680 foot, $16.2 million hurricane dam is dedicated. It's the first such barrier in the United States.
1973 *The state police stake out the Providence Civic Center and monitor promoter Robert "Skip" Chernov as he attempts to deliver a $1,000 bribe to Civic Center director Harold Copeland during a Pink Floyd concert.
1982 *The Rhode Island State Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of the state's 26-year-old "blue law," which governs retail sales on Sundays.
1987 *Fleet Financial Group announces a merger with Albany, New York-based Norstar Bancorp to form the Fleet/Norstar Financial Group.
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Post by friar82 on Mar 24, 2021 5:50:20 GMT -5
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1637 *Canonicus and Miantonomi sign a deed selling Aquidneck Island to William Coddington. [Sources differ on the year—it may have been 1638].
1788 *A Rhode Island referendum rejects the proposed United States Constitution.
1869 *Jeweler and silversmith Jabez Gorham dies in Providence, leaving an estate worth $317,930 (almost $5.6 million in 2018 dollars).
1871 *The Town of Slater changes its name to North Smithfield.
1916 *The Narragansett Times reports that, following the death of Thomas G. Hazard at 92 years, Narragansett's Boston Post Cane has passed into the hands of James H. Gardiner, 81, the next oldest inhabitant in the town.
1982 *A new Sunday sales law, which passes without the signature of the governor, will permit businesses to be open from noon to 5pm on Sundays.
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Post by pcdad on Mar 24, 2021 12:32:09 GMT -5
Pray tell, in 2021, who is the keeper of Narragansett's Boston Post Cane today... Enquiring minds
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Post by friar82 on Mar 24, 2021 13:43:37 GMT -5
Pray tell, in 2021, who is the keeper of Narragansett's Boston Post Cane today... Enquiring minds
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Post by friar82 on Mar 25, 2021 8:18:15 GMT -5
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1669 *Joseph Jenks purchases land at Pawtucket Falls as a site for a sawmill.
1776 *Former governor (1762-'63, 1765-'67) Samuel Ward dies of smallpox during a session of the Continental Congress in Philadelphia.
1872 *Smithfield Savings Bank is incorporated.
1873 *A significant portion of the Village of Phenix, in Cranston—eight buildings: four business, four residential—is lost to fire.
1892 *What Cheer Hose Company No. 15, Providence, receives a new hose wagon.
1938 *The United States District Court dismisses as invalid, an indictment against the Narragansett Racing Association because special grand jury proceedings were improper.
1947 *Brothers Casey and Henry Lada open a gin mill called The Wheel at 211 Cowesett Avenue in West Warwick.
1962 *The name of Butler Health Center is changed back to Butler Hospital.
1994 *The Ladd Center, Rhode Island's institution for the feeble minded, closes after eighty-six years.
1996 *John Hawkins's controversial two-and-a-half year reign as Lottery director ends, as the Lottery Commission votes 7 to 0 to oust him.
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Post by friar82 on Mar 26, 2021 8:00:33 GMT -5
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1676 *Captain Pierce and a company of Massachusetts soldiers are slaughtered by Indians between Pawtucket and Blackstone's settlement.
1848 *The Rhode Island General Assembly passes a law forbidding state officials from aiding in enforcing the Federal Fugitive Slave Act and refusing the use of state jails for fugitive slaves.
1876 *Former governor (1863-'66) James Y. Smith dies at the age of 66.
1898 *The Paradis, a four-story brick block on Monument Square in Woonsocket, is partially destroyed by fire early this morning. Loss, $25,000.
1942 *Boat service between Providence and New York ends after more than 300 years, as the United States government requisitions Colonial Navigation Company ships for war service.
1953 *U.S. Senator, (1999-2007), Governor (2011-'15), and presidential candidate Lincoln Chafee is born in Providence.
1990 *New England crime boss Raymond J. ''Junior'' Patriarca, his top lieutenant Nicholas L. Bianco, and more than a dozen reputed members of the Patriarca crime family are arrested on racketeering and numerous other charges.
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Post by friar82 on Mar 27, 2021 3:43:03 GMT -5
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1676 *Warwick is attacked by Indians.
1770 *The cornerstone of Brown's University Hall is set.
1773 *Ezekiel Cornell, Revolutionary War general and congressional delegate, is born in either Dartmouth, Massachusetts, or Scituate, Rhode Island.
1787 *Newport's original city charter is repealed.
1813 *Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry reaches Lake Erie.
1868 *Tuition in Rhode Island public schools is abolished.
1874 *North Providence is divided, with one portion being re-annexed to Providence (from which it was taken in 1765), and another portion being annexed to Pawtucket.
1885 *The town of Pawtucket is incorporated as a city.
1942 *Construction starts on the Rheem Ship Building Yard at Fields Point in Providence.
1968 *Dr. Werner A. Baum, a 45-year-old German-born educator, is named as president of the University of Rhode Island.
1978 *Freshman honor student Laura Ryan of Mineola, New York, dies at Massachusetts General Hospital, raising to ten the number of coeds killed by the December 13, 1977, Providence Collage dorm fire.
1980 *Ralph S. Mohr, of Providence, a Rhode Island historian and author of the book Rhode Island Governors for Three Hundred Years (1638-1959), dies in Florida.
1985 *The United States Supreme Court rules that police officers do not have the right to shoot unarmed suspects fleeing from non-violent crimes, thus overturning Rhode Island's law on use of deadly force.
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Post by friar82 on Mar 28, 2021 13:08:31 GMT -5
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1848 *Governor (1892-'95) D. Russell Brown is born in Bolton, Connecticut.
1865 *The Phenix National Bank (formerly the Phenix Bank, Providence), is organized and granted federal charter #948.
1873 *A portion of the Town of Cranston is reunited with Providence, from which it was taken in 1754., and a small portion of North Providence is also reunited with Providence, from which it was taken in 1765.
1901 *Narragansett is incorporated as a town.
1944 *A constitutional convention meets at Rhode Island College in Providence for the purpose of drafting an amendment relating to voting rights for members of the armed forces and merchant marine.
1945 *A rare spring heat wave hits the northeast, bringing temperatures of up to 90 degrees to Rhode Island.
1951 *Arthur R. Simmons and Fred McCusker buy Crescent Park Amusement Company for $295,000. They also purchase the Crescent Park Roller Coaster Company for an additional $30,000.
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Post by friar82 on Mar 29, 2021 5:59:24 GMT -5
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1676 *Narragansett Indians, led by Chief Canonchet, attack and burn more than twenty-four homes and outbuildings in the northern part of Providence.
1779 *On the occasion of his departure for New York, General John Sullivan is given a public dinner in Johnston by his companions in arms.
1849 *Commodore Matthew C. Perry directs the bombardment of Vera Cruz, Mexico, opening gateways for the invasion of Mexico.
1865 *Washington National Bank (formerly the Washington Bank of Westerly) is organized and granted federal charter #952.
1940 *Rhode Island is awarded the grand prize as the safest state in the nation by the National Safety Council.
1943 *The first state-wide blackout test is performed.
1972 *A bill lowering the age of majority from 21 to 18 is signed into law by Governor Frank Licht.
1974 *At a ceremony on Newport Naval Base, the base itself, the Naval Station, and the Naval Officer Training Center are all "read" out of existence. Orders setting up the Naval Education and Training Center to replace the three commands are also read.
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Post by friar82 on Mar 29, 2021 16:49:58 GMT -5
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1863 *Abraham Lincoln gives an address in Providence.
1867 *With the purchase of a new steam engine, Providence's Atlantic Engine Company No. 10 is renamed Atlantic Steam Engine Company No. 8, and stationed at the new Harrison Street station.
1877 *The Rhode Island state flag, featuring a blue anchor surmounted by the word �Hope,� surrounded by a ring of blue stars on a white field, is adopted.
1911 *The last assets of Colonel Segar S. Atwell's shore dinner place at Field's Point are auctioned off, bringing in about $1,100. The famous dining concern was forced to shut down at the end of last summer in anticipation of harbor improvements which will take a large portion of the Point.
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Post by friar82 on Mar 31, 2021 5:58:49 GMT -5
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1774 *The British close the port of Boston.
1806 *A duel takes place at Cold Spring in Providence, between William Austin and James Henderson Elliot. After three rounds of shooting, the fight ends with Austin wounded in the neck and thigh, and the men return to Boston.
1854 *Commodore Matthew C. Perry negotiates a treaty with Japan, opening that country to the West.
1880 *The tribal authority and tribal relations of the Narragansett Indians are abolished by an act of the Rhode Island General Assembly.
1900 *Slater National Bank of Pawtucket (Charter #856) is reorganized as the Slater Trust Company.
1985 *Old Colony Co-operative Bank changes its name to Old Colony Bank.
2004 *At a rally of 150 same-sex-marriage supporters in the State House rotunda, House Majority Leader Gordon D. Fox (D-Providence) reveals that he is gay. He later repeats his declaration in testimony, before the House Judiciary Committee, on bills to endorse and to ban same-sex marriage in Rhode Island.
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