165 years ago today - Saturday, Aug 9, 1851

[Council of Fifty]
Council met-L[arge] room. Heard "report" [of Uriah Brown's liquid] fire works [weapon].

[Source: Historian's Office journal, as quoted in Jedediah S. Rogers (editor), The Council of Fifty: A Documentary History, Signature Books (2014)]

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