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.

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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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peri: A sprite or supernatural being in Persian mythology. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/peri

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