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On Display Now!
Practical Beauty: A Century of Quilts
a special exhibit on display through October 31
Our new Entrance Building & Exhibit Galleries
Enjoy the Museum's Headquarters
Art Gallery & Research Library
weekdays 10:00 am - 4:00 pm throughout the year
except Thanksgiving, Christmas & New Year's Day
Enjoy the Headquarters' Art Gallery & Research Library
throughout the year
Thursday, September 2
This Day in Regional History
1811 Explorer David Thompson of the North West Company completes the first scientific survey of the Columbia River.def
1909 Suffragist Emma Smith DeVoe addresses 400 teachers in Snohomish, Washington.
Elsewhere in the world:
("History does not occur in a vacuum")
On August 10, 1846, Congress established the
Smithsonian Institution,
named for
British scientist
James Smithson,
who endowed
the organization
with $500,000.
On September 26, 2010, Fort Walla Walla Museum
is proud to participate
in the Smithsonian's
sixth annual
Museum Day;
log into the Smithsonian Magazine to get your free
pass
good
for two people
to visit the Museum.
1666 Great Fire of London.
1789 U.S. Department of the Treasury is established.
1864 Union forces under General William T. Sherman occupy Atlanta during the Civil War.
1901 In a speech delivered at the Minnesota State Fair, Vice-President Theodore Roosevelt utters the now famous line,
"Speak softly and carry a big stick."
1944 Future President George H. W. Bush's ('Bush 41') bomber is shot down by Japanese forces
over the Bonin Islands.
1945 Vietnam is declared an independent republic
by Ho Chi Minh. Ho dies on the same date in 1969.
1985 Wreck of the Titanic is located 560 miles
from the coast of Newfoundland.
1992 As the post-Cold War era dawns, Russia and the U.S. agree to build a space station.
2005 As the Gulf Coast flounders in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina President George W. Bush ('Bush 43') utters the now infamous line, "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job," referring to Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) director Michael Brown.
Historical Birthdays Today
1814 Archaeologist who conducted the excavation
at Olympia, Greece, Ernst Curtius.
1820 Novelist
Lucretia Hale (The Peterkin Papers).
1850 Professional baseball player/manager/co-founder of the sporting goods company bearing his name, A.G. Spalding.
1878 Third Reich's Minister of War
under Adolph Hitler, Werner Blomberg.
1917 Journalist/novelist/founder of Fund for Animals,
Cleveland 'Curmudgeon at Large' Amory
(The Cat and the Curmudgeon).
1918 Wife of Attorney General John Mitchell in the Nixon administration/Watergate figure, Martha Mitchell.
There's always something new
to see at
Fort Walla Walla Museum!
This page updated September 2, 2010
Fort Walla Walla Museum is open for visitation
10:00 am - 5:00 pm daily,
April through October.
Admission is free to Fort Walla Walla Museum members,
Tamástslikt Cultural Institute's
Inwai Circle cardholders,
enrolled members of the
Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation,
and all children under 6;
$3/children 6-12; $6/seniors (62+) and students; 7/adults.
Your admission today may be applied to a membership,
priced beginning at $25.
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