Let's Hear It For Gray!

This year marks the 225th anniversary of a most impressive feat - whether mercantile in nature or not! (Hey - we all know that what pushed the Portuguese to find the fabled Passage to the Indies was... well... mostly mercantile, commercial and financial reasons! But that's another story...)

Today in History - April 10th, 2015

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1790 - Merchant Robert Gray docked at Boston Harbor, becoming the first American to circumnavigate the globe. He sailed from Boston in September 1787.

1849 - William Hunt of New York patented the first safety pin.

1864 - Austrian Archduke Maximilian became emperor of Mexico.

1919 - Emiliano Zapata, a leader of peasants and indigenous people during the Mexican Revolution, was ambushed and killed in Morelos by government forces.

1942 - Japanese soldiers herded U.S. and Filipino prisoners of war on Bataan in the Philippines and forced them to march to another camp. During the six-day "Death March," more than 5,200 Americans and many more Filipinos died.

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Robert Gray - another tangible link between the two proud traditions of navigation and avant-garde feats of all manners and all sorts: Boston and Portugal!