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This Day in History

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10/28/1636 Harvard College is created.
10/28/1636 Lovells Island is granted to Charlestown.
10/28/1646 Rev. John Eliot preaches to Native Americans in Newton.
10/28/1767 Boycott of British goods is encouraged.
10/28/1767 Non-Importation Petition is submitted.
10/28/1769 Boston Chronicle offices are attacked.
10/28/1769 George Gailer is tarred and feathered and brought on a cart to the Liberty Tree.
10/28/1772 Town meeting passes several resolutions protesting British interference in colonial affairs.
10/28/1800 Boston School Committee is described by Harvard president Charles Eliot.
10/28/1835 Paine III (Robert Treat) is born in Boston.
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