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1

1979: Vermont is officially free of Bovine Tuberculosis

2

1970: Kids come to Burlington to see Trooper Yancy and be on TV

3

1780: Athens gets what it's after...recognition in the form of a charter

4

1801: A marriage in trouble in the Weekly Wanderer

5

1864: It's the start of Vermont's deadliest Civil War battle

6

1868: Charles Shattuck Hill works with concrete

7

1802: Luther Tucker, a farmer's best friend, is born

8

1799: Bridport's first ear-mark is recorded

9

1917: Fort Ethan Allen celebrates receiving a motorized ambulance

10

1794: Nathaniel Colver, abolitionist, is born in Orwell

11

1846: Henry Willard Denison, Japanese diplomat, born in Guildhall

12

1928: 12,000 people show up at Burlington's City Hall

13

1938: Grace Pugh gets her pilot's license

14

1917: Local boys fill in the labor gaps from World War I

15

1834: A future lawyer & writer is born in Waterville

16

1899: A fire takes most of Northfield's East Street

17

1911: Rutland doesn't measure up

18

1877: Vermont gets hit by a tornado & hail

19

1772: The beginning of the 20-year Guilford War

20

1916: First Norman Rockwell cover on Saturday Evening Post

21

1931: Planting a tree on the statehouse lawn for a nurse

22

1948: Alexander Copley passes away

23

1903: A doctor, chauffeur, and a dog head out on an adventure

24

1944: The Trapp Family leases CCC Dorms from the state

25

1955: There's an underwear thief in Winooski

26

1839: A man of many words is born in Fairlee

27

2006: Poultney under glass - 1,000 pictures

28

1917: World War I voluntary censorship begins

29

1833: James Sloane is born in Topsham

30

1794: Trouble at the British Block House in Grand Isle

31

1820: George Frederick Houghton is born in Guilford


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