TO-DAY'S ANNIVERSARIES.
JUNE 28th. Hubens great Dutch painter, born .. 1577 Abraham Orleluis. Dutch geographer, who prepared tho first great atlas, died .. •• -.V, Jean Jacques Bousseau, philosopher, born .. •• .*•■■■ Coronation of Queen Victoria .. 1833 Charles Stewart Parnell, celebrated Irish leader, born • • 1816 Burke. Australian explorer, died in tho desert after crossing the Australian continent •• •• Sir Julius Vogel announced his famous .Public Works policy .. •• 1870 Last stand of the Kelly gang at Glenrocan .. _ .. • • • • Introduction of sixpenny telegrams .. ISS3 Sir Hairy Atkinson, 'four times Prime ___ Minister of New Zealand, died. .. 1893 Imperial and Intercolonial Conference opened at Ottawa 1834
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Press, Volume LIII, Issue 15939, 28 June 1917, Page 10
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