when did the donner party get stranded?
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Donner Party timeline August 1846. 1  August 1–5, 1846: The Donner Party makes good time following the tracks of the group led by Hastings. 2  August 6, 1846: The Donner Party stops near the mouth of Echo Canyon on the Weber River, present day Henefer, Utah. 3  August 10, 1846: Reed returns to the wagons.
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- The culprit was snow. As the Donner Party approached the summit of the Sierra Mountains near what is now Donner Lake (known as Truckee Lake at the time) they found the pass clogged with new-fallen snow up to six feet deep. It was October 28, 1846 and the Sierra snows had started a month earlier than usual.
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- Wreck of the Peter Iredale ... On October 25, 1906, during a heavy southwest wind, the four-masted British vessel, the Peter Iredale, ran aground at Clatsop Beach, off the coast of Fort Stevens. According to the Transcript of the Naval Court findings, Issued in London by the Board of Trade on the 24th December 1906:
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Notable Historical Events Pug Ryan Robs the Denver Hotel Deputy Ernest Conrad & Deputy Sumner Whitney Killed On August 11, 1898, while several prominent citizens gambled at the Denver Hotel on Main Street in Breckenridge, Pug Ryan and his gang entered the hotel.
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Ancient China Interesting Facts about the Grand Canal. 1  Historians estimate that the oldest section of the canal was built around the 6th century BC. 2  Emperors would sometimes travel along the Grand Canal to inspect the locks. 3  It is estimated that it took over 45,000 full-time laborers to maintain the canal during the Ming Dynasty.
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Gilliganâs Island, Where Were You When The Minnow Ran Aground? Gilligan's Island, Where Were You When The Minnow Ran Aground? I challenge all Baby Boomer's to listen to the clip below and not feel a bit nostalgic about times gone by. It seems hard to believe that 50 years have elapsed since the debut of Gilligan's Island on September 26th, 1964. Virtually every baby boomer born in The U.S. was alive during the premiere. The oldest were 18 and youngest less than a year old -- they saw it in re-runs.
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- It is to be 1600 feet in length, and the work will be prosecuted night and day until completed.” October 14, 1865 Placer Herald (Auburn) The first American transcontinental railroad crosses Donner Pass at an elevation of 7,000 feet, through an area that gets an average of 34 feet of snow a year.
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- The PEPCON disaster was an industrial disaster that occurred in Henderson, Nevada on May 4, 1988 at the Pacific Engineering and Production Company of Nevada (PEPCON) plant.
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Northern Pacific Railway Company Records, 1870-1968 The Kootenai Valley Railroad Company was incorporated on October 19, 1898. Its main line ran from Bonners Ferry, Idaho, to Porthill, Idaho, on the Canadian border. It was sold to and merged into the Great Northern Railway Company in 1913.
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Mount Rainier National Park Mount Rainier National Park closed because of extensive flooding as a result of the 6 November 2006 Pineapple Express rainstorm when 18 inches (460 mm) of rain fell in a 36-hour period. Campsites and roads throughout the park were washed away. Power to Paradise and Longmire was disrupted.
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Donner Party The title page of The Emigrants’ Guide to Oregon and California. This guide was written by Landsford W. Hastings, the namesake of the Hastings Cutoff, a route taken by the Donner Party through northern Utah and eastern Nevada. The Cutoff may have added as many as 125 miles to their trip and delayed their arrival to the Sierra Nevada Mountains until mid-October.
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- 10 hardcore survivalists were dropped off in the Vancouver Island wilderness alone, each with only a backpack; the contestant that lasted the longest got a $500,000 prize. Well, 40-year-old Alan Kay took home the big bucks after 56 days on his own.
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- Tony & Susan McCanless ride out Hurricane Ivan aboard their sailboat in Pensacola. Scroll down for pictures. Hurricane Ivan hit Gulf Shores and Orange Beach, Alabama just west of Pensacola, Florida (The Panhandle) in the early hours of September 16, 2004. Tony and Susan McCanless were aboard their 30 foot EndeavourCat catamaran sailboat, Wind Song, in a slip at Pensacola Shipyard and Marine Complex (PSMC).
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Libby Riddles Libby Riddles. 1956-American dogsledder. The 13th annual Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in 1985 was particularly grueling — jinxed from the start by bad weather, bad trail and bad luck, according to Associated Press reports.
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Night of the Flanger BA-Productions is proud to introduce, Winter Rails Over Donner. The first of three epic snow service stories, this production sub-titled Night of the Flanger is available now. Price for this in-your-face action-packed production is $29.95 on DVD or VHS.
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Q&A They never got off the island -- at least not during the regular series. The original Gilligan's Island series ran on CBS from 1964 to 1967, but at the end of that run, Gilligan and company were still marooned. It took 11 more years, and the made-for-TV reunion film Rescue From Gilligan's Island, before they finally made it off the island. Sadly, the end of the film saw them back on it again.
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Donner Memorial State Park Two sites in the woodland have a direct connection with the Donner party. One is a large boulder, which formed the fireplace and part of the back wall of the cabin belonging to George Murphy, one of the members of the group.
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APUSH chapter 14 vocab Donner Party. Forty-seven surviving members of a group of migrants to California were forced to resort to cannibalism to survive a brutal winter trapped in the Sierra Nevadas, 1846-47; highest death toll of any group traveling the Overland Trail.
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Ludendorff Bridge At the end of Operation Lumberjack (March 1–7, 1945), the troops of the American 1st Army approached Remagen and were surprised to find that the bridge was still standing. Its capture enabled the U.S. Army to establish a bridgehead on the eastern side of the Rhine.
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- This Day in History: 12/05/1945 - Planes Lost in Bermuda Triangle. In this This Day in History video, learn about the history of December 5th. It was the day of the California Gold Rush in 1848, the start of Prohibition in 1933, and the day Newt Gingrich became speaker of the house, the first Republican to do so in some 40 years.
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- On June 17, 1972, several people broke into the Democratic National Committee Headquarters; they were discovered by an on-site guard and were arrested by local police.
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Snow to Hit Donner Pass this Weekend Donner Pass is, of course, infamous for what happened during the winter of 1846-47. A group of pioneers traveling west experienced many delays along the way and wound up getting snowbound in the High Sierra.
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Dixie's Long Journey From Democratic Stronghold To Republican Redoubt Dixie's Long Journey From Democratic Stronghold To Republican Redoubt. Ronald Reagan speaks to a reporter at the Republican National Convention in Florida in 1968. In 1984, Reagan carried in the biggest group of Southern Republicans in Congress since Reconstruction.