The Warren County Canal was a branch of the Miami and Erie Canal in
southwestern Ohio about 20 miles (30 km) in length that connected the
Warren County seat of Lebanon to the main canal at Middletown. Lebanon
was at the crossroads of two major roads, the highway from Cincinnati
to Columbus (later U.S. Route 42) and the road from Chillicothe to the
College Township (Oxford), but Lebanon businessmen and civic leaders
wanted better transportation facilities and successfully lobbied for
their own canal, part of the canal fever of the first third of the
19th Century. Because of the low volume of traffic, the Warren County
Canal was never successful, operating less than a decade before the
state abandoned it.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1775:
American Revolutionary War: British forces took Bunker Hill outside of
Boston.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bunker_Hill)
1789:
French Revolution: The Third Estate of France declared itself the
National Assembly.
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Assembly_%28French_Revolution%29)
1961:
Canada's New Democratic Party was founded with the merger of the CCF
and organized labour.
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Democratic_Party)
1972:
Watergate scandal: Five men were arrested for burglarizing the offices
of the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate Hotel.
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_scandal)
1994:
O. J. Simpson was chased down and arrested on suspicion of murdering
his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._J._Simpson)
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Wikiquote of the day:
"I observed, 'Love is the fulfilling of the law, the end of the
commandment.' It is not only 'the first and great' command, but all
the commandments in one. 'Whatsoever things are just, whatsoever
things are pure, if there be any virtue, if there be any praise,' they
are all comprised in this one word, love. -- John Wesley
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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Wesley)