3 Odd But True Events From September 8

When I take a break from selling houses in Silicon Valley, Calif., I love learning new facts. Here are three milestones from September 8th.

         1504 – Renowned sculptor and artist Michelangelo unveils his sculpture David  in Piazza della Signoria in Florence, Italy. 
         1810 – The Tonquin sets sail from New York with 33 employees of John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company. After a six-month journey around the tip of South America, the ship arrives at the mouth of the Columbia River and Astor's men establish the fur-trading town of Astoria, Oregon.  

         1883 – The Northern Pacific Railway was completed in a ceremony at Gold Creek, Montana. Former U.S. president Ulysses S. Grant drove in the final "golden spike" for the event attended by businessmen and politicians. 

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