Fanno Creek is a 15-mile (24 km) tributary of the Tualatin River in the
U.S. state of Oregon. Part of the drainage basin of the Columbia River,
its watershed covers about 32 square miles (83 km2) in Multnomah,
Washington, and Clackamas counties, including about 7 square miles
(18 km2) within the Portland city limits. From its headwaters in the
Tualatin Mountains (West Hills) in southwest Portland, the creek flows
generally west and south through the cities of Portland, Beaverton,
Tigard and Durham, and unincorporated areas of Washington County. It
enters the Tualatin River about 9 miles (14 km) above the Tualatin's
confluence with the Willamette River at West Linn. For thousands of
years, the Atfalati (Tualatin) tribe of the Kalapuya inhabited the
watershed. The first settler of European descent, Augustus Fanno, for
whom the creek is named, arrived in the mid-19th century. Fanno
Farmhouse, the restored family home, is a Century Farm on the National
Register of Historic Places and is one of 14 urban parks in a narrow
corridor along the creek. Although heavily polluted, the creek supports
aquatic life, including cutthroat trout in its upper reaches.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanno_Creek>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1028:
Future Byzantine empress Zoe first took the throne as empress
consort to Romanos III Argyros.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoe_Porphyrogenita>
1330:
Led by voivode Basarab I, Wallachian forces defeated the
Hungarian army in an ambush at the Battle of Posada.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Posada>
1893:
Mortimer Durand, Foreign Secretary of British India, and Abdur
Rahman Khan, Amir of Afghanistan, signed the Durand Line Agreement,
establishing what is now the international border between Afghanistan
and Pakistan.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durand_Line>
1936:
The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, connecting San
Francisco and Oakland, California across San Francisco Bay, opened to
traffic.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco%E2%80%93Oakland_Bay_Bridge>
1970:
The 1970 Bhola cyclone made landfall on the coast of East
Pakistan (Bangladesh), becoming the deadliest tropical cyclone in
history, with over 300,000 people killed.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970_Bhola_cyclone>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
peri:
A sprite or supernatural being in Persian mythology.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/peri>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Justice and equity are twin Guardians that watch over men. From
them are revealed such blessed and perspicuous words as are the cause of
the well-being of the world and the protection of the nations.
--Bahá'u'lláh
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%27u%27ll%C3%A1h>