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It is said that New York coin dealer Thomas Elder first coined the term “So-Called Dollar” to describe a medal sold at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition – an event better known as the St. Louis World’s Fair.
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Patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, partly sunny, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 70. Light and variable wind becoming west 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 25 mph.
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Mostly clear, with a low around 46. Calm wind becoming east around 5 mph after midnight.
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Courtesy of HistoryNet:
1725 New Hampshire militiamen partake in the first recorded scalping of Indians by whites in North America.
1726 Birth of William Prescott, U.S. Revolutionary War hero at the Battle of Bunker Hill.