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1997 David Frost wins Golf's Colonial Final in Ft. Worth Texas

1996 Ted Nightingale, former colonial governor, dies at 91

1993 125th Belmont: Julie Krone aboard Colonial Affair wins in 2:29.8

1968 New colonial constitution for Bermuda adopted

1959 Keith Allen Clearwater, born in Long Beach, California, PGA golfer, 1987 Colonial Natl

1957 Betty Dodd wins LPGA Colonial Golf Open

1955 Danny Joe Pohl, born in Mt Pleasant, Michigan, PGA golfer, 1986 Colonial

1953 French minister Francois Mitterrand, resigns due to colonial policy

1952 General strike against French colonial management in Tunisia

1946 Sukarno calls for anti colonial defiance in Indonesia

1942 KNIL, Dutch colonial army on Java, surrenders to Japanese armies

1941 45th U.S. Golf Open: Craig Wood shoots a 284 at Colonial Club Ft. Worth

1934 Italian colonial Tripoli and Cyrenaica annexed to Libya

1933 Dutch colonial regime in Batavia arrest ir Sukarno

1933 Colonial troops in Suriname kill 2 demonstrators

1933 Colonial government arrests Anton de Kom in Paramaribo Suriname

1926 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina opens Royal Colonial Institution

1925 French colonial army beats Rifkabylen in Morocco

1915 Albert J-BJ Thijs, Belgian Colonial pioneer (Congo), dies at 65

1914 Raffenel, French general (3rd Colonial Div, WW I), dies in battle

1914 Rondoney, French general (3rd Colonial Div, WW I), dies in battle

1909 Ernest F Cambier, Bel colonial pioneer (1st Congo railway), dies at 65

1909 Foley Newns, British colonial administrator

1904 Ted Nightingale, former colonial governor

1904 Great Britain and France sign Cordial Entente concerning colonial matter

1895 John F Loudon, entrepreneur/colonial director, dies at 74

1892 National Society of Colonial Dames of America founded

1879 Zulu war against British colonial rule in South Africa begins

1856 Carel SW van Hogendorp, colonial director, dies at 68

1852 Pierre Brazza, explorer/colonial administrator, French Africa

1849 Albert J-BJ Th˜s, Belgian colonial pioneer, Congo

1844 Ernest F Cambier, Belgian colonial pioneer, 1st railway Congo.

1838 Willem earl van Hogendorp, Dutch colonial governor, dies at about 43

1838 Arnold A Buyskes, Dutch vice-admiral/colonial director, dies at 67

1827 Harman W. Muntinghe, lawyer/colonial director, dies at 54

1823 Jacob A Uitenhage de Mist, Dutch politician/colonial dir, dies at 74

1821 John F Loudon, Dutch entrepreneur/colonial director.

1819 Dutch colonial troops driven out of Palembang Sumatra

1790 Colonial troops occupy Bonni's marroon village

1788 Carel SW van Hogendorp, Dutch colonial director

1774 1st Continental Congress is 1st to declare colonial rights (Phila)

1774 1st American colonial decl of rights with sinking of Peggy Stewart

1773 Harman W. Muntinghe, lawyer/Dutch colonial director

1771 Jacob Andries van Braam, colonial director, Suriname

1771 Arnold A. Buyskes, Dutch vice-admiral/colonial director

1760 Suriname Colonial Regime signs treaty with Aukaners (ex-slaves)

1758 English and Colonial assault on France at Ticonderoga, New York

1744 John Jeffries, colonial physician/meteorologist

1738 John Singleton Copley, Massachusetts, finest colonial American artist

1714 Cornelis Chastelein, colonial director, dies at 56

1690 Mass Bay becomes 1st American colonial goverment to borrow money

1681 English Quaker William Penn receives charter from Charles II, making him sole proprietor of colonial American territory Pennsylvania

1676 1st colonial prision organized, Nantucket Mass

1668 Stephen Day, 1st British colonial printer, dies

1663 1st serious slave conspiracy in colonial America (Virginia)

1658 Antoine Cadillac, french colonial governor of America

1657 Cornelis Chastelein, Dutch colonial director

1646 Joseph Jenkes, MA, receives 1st colonial machine patent

1630 1st colonial legislation prohibiting gambling enacted (Boston)

1619 John A van Riebeeck, colonial director/founder, Cape Colony



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