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[brookstonalmanac]

Events 2.4 (before 1940)

62 – Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy. 1576 – Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion. 1597 – A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society. 1783 – In Calabria, a sequence of strong earthquakes begins. 1810 – Peninsular War: Siege of Cádiz begins. 1818 – Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway. 1852 – The New Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opens to the public. 1859 – Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Prince of Moldavia, is also elected as prince of Wallachia, joining the two principalities as a personal union called the United Principalities, an autonomous region within the Ottoman Empire, which ushered in the birth of the modern Romanian state. 1862 – Moldavia and Wallachia formally unite to create the Romanian United Principalities. 1869 – The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the "Welcome Stranger", is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia. 1885 – King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession. 1901 – J. P. Morgan incorporates U.S. Steel in the state of New Jersey, although the company would not start doing business until February 25 and the assets of Andrew Carnegie's Carnegie Steel Company, Elbert H. Gary's Federal Steel Company, and William Henry Moore's National Steel Company were not acquired until April 1. 1905 – In Mexico, the General Hospital of Mexico is inaugurated, started with four basic specialties. 1907 – Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic. 1913 – Greek military aviators, Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane. 1913 – Claudio Monteverdi's last opera L'incoronazione di Poppea was performed theatrically for the first time in more than 250 years. 1917 – The current constitution of Mexico is adopted, establishing a federal republic with powers separated into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches. 1917 – The Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Woodrow Wilson's veto. 1918 – Stephen W. Thompson shoots down a German airplane; this is the first aerial victory by the U.S. military. 1918 – SS Tuscania is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland; it is the first ship carrying American troops to Europe to be torpedoed and sunk. 1919 – Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith launch United Artists. 1924 – The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal. 1933 – Mutiny on Royal Netherlands Navy warship HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën off the coast of Sumatra, Dutch East Indies. 1939 – Generalísimo Francisco Franco becomes the 68th "Caudillo de España", or Leader of Spain.

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The largest 72kg gold nugget ever found (called the Welcome Stranger), discovered by two miners John Deason and Richard Oates on February 5, 1869, near Moliagul, in the state of Victoria, Australia.

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[jamieroxx]

Today in History: Feb 5, 1869 – The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the “Welcome Stranger”, is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_Stranger)

[melbournenewsvine]

Flood warnings for regional Victoria as Charlton residents prepare for peak

There were nine watch alerts and actions across the Victoria Regional on Sunday as authorities monitored flooding in the Loudoun, Avoca, Murray and King River systems. the main points: Watch and action alerts remain in place along many river systems The Avoca River is set to reach a moderate flood level in Charlton on Sunday Residents continue to do their jobs Another 16 indicative alerts have been developed covering most parts of the state. They came as the Met Office predicted more heavy rain on Tuesday. The West Victoria region will receive up to five millimeters of rain on Tuesday before the bulk of the rain falls on Wednesday, said Miriam Bradbury, the chief shift forecaster. “Overall, we’re looking at about 10-20 mm north of the gap on Wednesday, generally only 5-15 mm in the southwest,” she said. “From Thursday, precipitation will increase widely, on a wide range of 20 to 50 mm across Victoria, with some heavy fall possible on the barrier and north, likely in the northeast of the state. “There will be a chance of thunderstorms on Thursday, mostly on or north of the barrier across the northern and central parts of Victoria, and that could lead to higher rainfall totals locally as well.” The State Emergency Service said it had received 44 requests for help across the state in the past 24 hours, and five of them were due to flooding. Water rushes over Elmore Ware along the Campaspi River.(Supplied: Jamie Bell) Flood waters approaching Charlton Victoria’s Emergency Management said further upheavals were expected in rivers along the Avoca River downstream of the Charlton River. She said moderate flooding is likely to occur as of Sunday afternoon in Charlton. But residents said the 5.5-meter mark, which was expected to reach the water level, is not enough to sweep the banks. The Lions Club Swap Meet and Flower Festival for Seniors was continuing on Sunday. All was “well, quiet and collected,” said Lions club member Harry Brindley. “A little more rain would be good for the harvest,” he said. The 39th Charlton Show is also scheduled to kick off next weekend. Mr Brindley said he traveled through Laanecoorie on Friday after helping the Lions Club of Carisbrook and was able to get around through Dunolly and Moliagul. The slight flood level of the Avoca River in Charlton is 4 metres. The record elevation was 8.6 meters during the January 2011 floods, just four months after the previous major floods. Charlton also experienced major floods in 2016 when gauge heights exceeded 7 metres. Flood hazards in Loudoun and Campaspi Victorian Emergency Management said moderate flooding continued along the Loudoun River downstream of Languri Reservoir and downstream of the Loudoun Ware. It said flooding was receding downstream in Langkuri Reservoir and the flood peak would approach downstream of the Loudoun Weir on Sunday night and into Monday. Ms Bradbury said the extra rainfall would likely mean that flooded rivers would maintain their water levels. Bullockshire Council was assessing areas in Glenloth and Jerok on Sunday and closing roads as floods moved downstream of the Charlton River. VicTraffic lists several approaches to road closures across many parts of central and northern Victoria. Local news straight to your inbox ABC Central Victoria will provide a recap of the week’s news, stories and photos every Tuesday. Subscribe to stay in touch. Source link Originally published at Melbourne News Vine

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The largest 72kg gold nugget ever found (called the Welcome Stranger), discovered by two miners John Deason and Richard Oates on February 5, 1869, near Moliagul, in the state of Victoria, Australia.

Photo Copyright © prefuntasfrecuentes.net

[syed039]

Gold Facts: The discovery of the world's largest gold nugget is being remembered 150 years on.Two Cornish miners found the huge nugget dubbed the Welcome Stranger while prospecting in the gold fields of Moliagul, Australia on 5 February 1869.It weighed 11 stone (71.4kg) and was 61cm long (24 inches) when it was found buried just below the surface.

[daniela--anna]

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La più grande pepita d'oro fin'ora trovata si chiama "Welcome Stranger" e pesa circa 71Kg.

✨La pepita è un pezzo di oro nativo di genesi naturale. Le pepite si concentrano spesso nei corsi d'acqua dove vengono ritrovate dai cercatori d'oro fluviale, ma possono essere anche rinvenute in depositi residuali laddove le vene o i filoni auriferi si sono esauriti. Le pepite possono trovarsi anche nei cumuli di scarti di laveria, provenienti da precedenti operazioni minerarie, specialmente tra gli scarti lasciati dalle draghe utilizzate per la ricerca dell'oro. L'estrazione di pepite con metodo alluvionale, ovvero per precipitazione gravimetrica con semplice lavaggio e riciclo produttivo dell'acqua, consente di definire come Oro etico questa tipologia di metallo.

✨Le pepite più grandi.

La più grande pepita d'oro mai trovata fu la Welcome Stranger, rinvenuta nel 1869 a Moliagul (Victoria, Australia) da John Deason e Richard Oates.

Pesava, al lordo, più di 78,38 kg e restituì un netto di 71,04 kg.

✨La più grande pepita ancora integra, con un peso di 60,82 kg, è la pepita Canaã, scoperta in Brasile il 13 settembre 1983 da Julio de Deus Filho nel Garimpo da Malvina, nella Serra Pelada. Attualmente è conservata presso il Museo dei valori del Banco Central do Brasil, a Brasilia, che la acquistò il 20 dicembre 1984.

La più grande pepita visibile al pubblico è, invece, la Hand of Faith. Trovata nel 1980 grazie a un metal detector da Kevin Hillier nei pressi di Wedderburn in Australia, pesa 27 kg ed è esposta nell'hotel The Nugget di Las Vegas.

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[brookstonalmanac]

Events 2.5

62 – Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy. 1576 – Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion. 1597 – A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society. 1783 – In Calabria, a sequence of strong earthquakes begins. 1810 – Peninsular War: Siege of Cádiz begins. 1818 – Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway. 1852 – The New Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opens to the public. 1859 – Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Prince of Moldavia, is also elected as prince of Wallachia, joining the two principalities as a personal union called the United Principalities, an autonomous region within the Ottoman Empire, which ushered in the birth of the modern Romanian state. 1862 – Moldavia and Wallachia formally unite to create the Romanian United Principalities. 1869 – The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the "Welcome Stranger", is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia. 1885 – King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession. 1901 – J. P. Morgan forms U.S. Steel, a $1 billion steel company, having bought some of John D. Rockefeller's iron mines and Andrew Carnegie's entire steel business. 1905 – In Mexico, the General Hospital of Mexico is inaugurated, started with four basic specialties. 1907 – Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic. 1913 – Greek military aviators, Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane. 1913 – Claudio Monteverdi's last opera L'incoronazione di Poppea was performed theatrically for the first time in more than 250 years. 1917 – The current constitution of Mexico is adopted, establishing a federal republic with powers separated into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches. 1917 – The Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Woodrow Wilson's veto. 1918 – Stephen W. Thompson shoots down a German airplane; this is the first aerial victory by the U.S. military. 1918 – SS Tuscania is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland; it is the first ship carrying American troops to Europe to be torpedoed and sunk. 1919 – Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith launch United Artists. 1924 – The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal. 1933 – Mutiny on Royal Netherlands Navy warship HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën off the coast of Sumatra, Dutch East Indies. 1939 – Generalísimo Francisco Franco becomes the 68th "Caudillo de España", or Leader of Spain. 1941 – World War II: Allied forces begin the Battle of Keren to capture Keren, Eritrea. 1945 – World War II: General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila. 1958 – Gamal Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic. 1958 – A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered. 1962 – French President Charles de Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence. 1963 – The European Court of Justice's ruling in Van Gend en Loos v Nederlandse Administratie der Belastingen establishes the principle of direct effect, one of the most important, if not the most important, decisions in the development of European Union law. 1967 – Cultural Revolution: The Shanghai People's Commune is formally proclaimed, with Yao Wenyuan and Zhang Chunqiao being appointed as its leaders. 1971 – Astronauts land on the Moon in the Apollo 14 mission. 1975 – Riots break out in Lima, Peru after the police forces go on strike the day before. The uprising (locally known as the Limazo) is bloodily suppressed by the military dictatorship. 1985 – Ugo Vetere, then the mayor of Rome, and Chedli Klibi, then the mayor of Carthage, meet in Tunis to sign a treaty of friendship officially ending the Third Punic War which lasted 2,131 years. 1988 – Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges. 1994 – Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. 1994 – Markale massacres, more than 60 people are killed and some 200 wounded as a mortar shell explodes in a downtown marketplace in Sarajevo. 1997 – The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families. 2000 – Russian forces massacre at least 60 civilians in the Novye Aldi suburb of Grozny, Chechnya. 2004 – Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaïves, starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion. 2008 – A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States kills 57. 2019 – Pope Francis becomes the first Pope in history to visit and perform papal mass in the Arabian Peninsula during his visit to Abu Dhabi. 2020 – United States President Donald Trump is acquitted by the United States Senate in his first impeachment trial. 2021 – Police riot in Mexico City as they try to break up a demonstration by cyclists who were protesting after a bus ran over a bicyclist. Eleven police officers are arrested.

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5th Day of February - Fatcowco - 1869 – The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the “Welcome Stranger”, is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.

5th Day of February – Fatcowco – 1869 – The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the “Welcome Stranger”, is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.

1869 – The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the “Welcome Stranger”, is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia. The Welcome Stranger is the biggest alluvial gold nugget found, which had a calculated refined weight of 97.14 kilograms (3,123 ozt). It measured 61 by 31 cm (24 by 12 in) and was discovered by prospectors John Deason and Richard Oates on 5 February 1869 at Moliagul,…

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White Gold

Considered by most authorities to be the biggest gold nugget ever found, the Welcome Stranger was found at Moliagul, Victoria, Australia in 1869 by John Deason and Richard Oates.

There are many interesting facts about Gold which we try to cover in this #goldfacts segment.

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Feb 05, 1869 The biggest gold nugget in history is found. The “Welcome Stranger” was found at Moliagul in Australia and had a calculated refined weight of 71.081 kg. #DidYouKnow #History #WelcomeStranger

[jamieroxx]

Today in History: Feb 5, 1869 – The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the "Welcome Stranger", is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_Stranger)

[blackwolf1264]

at Old Moliagul Town

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WELCOME STRANGER, YOU SURE ARE ONE BIG NUGGET

The world's largest gold nugget - named the "Welcome Stranger" was found just a couple of inches below the ground near Dunolly, Victoria, Australia on 5 February 1869. On a hot day in 1869, in the bush at Moliagul, Victoria, John Deason made the discovery of his lifetime and of the goldrush era – the Welcome Stranger nugget. John Deason was an impoverished prospector struggling to support a wife and young family before his luck changed in such an overwhelming way. While searching around the roots of a tree Deason discovered the gold nugget just 3 cm below the surface. He concealed his find until dark, then with his partner, Richard Oates, dug it out. They then held a party during which they revealed their find to the guests.

It was worth 10,000 pounds - around $3-4 million in today's money. Weighing in at 2,315.5 troy ounces (72.02 kg) it surpassed the "Welcome Nugget" by nearly a hundred ounces.  It was the largest nugget found in the world and remains so to this day. In this 1869 illustration (below) published shortly after the discovery, the size of the nugget (61 by 31 cm or 24 by 12 in.) is compared to a 12 inch (30 cm) scale bar. The nugget was soon melted down into ingots and shipped to the Bank of England. Before 1990, just about all large nuggets were melted down for their monetary value. Today there are less than a dozen known nuggets over 500 ounces.

The 'Welcome Stranger' was taken to Dunolly where it had to be broken on an anvil before it could fit on the bank's scales. It was worth 10,000 pounds - around $3-4 million in today's money. How the Welcome Stranger nugget was found The following is an account from John Deason, the man who found the Welcome Stranger nugget, as detailed when he was 75 yrs old on November 23rd 1905..... It was between 9 and 10am on the fifth of February 1869. I was at work picking the surface for puddling and put the pick in the ground and felt what I thought was a stone, the second blow struck in the same way and the third also. I scraped the ground with the pick and saw gold; then I cleared away further and right around the nugget. There was a stringy bark root going right across it and a small bit of gold stood up and the root of the stringy bark ran through this. I tried to prise the nugget up with the pick but the handle broke. I then got a crowbar and raised the nugget to the surface. It weighed nearly three hundred weight, at first there was much quartz with the gold. As the nugget lay in the ground, the solid piece of gold was underneath and it was deep in the ground but the top of the nugget was not more than 1" below the surface. The nugget was about 18" long by 16" wide and about 16" deep. My mate, Richard Oates, was working a short distance below the puddling machine in his paddock and I send my son down to call him. When my mate came, I said, "What do you think of it Dick? It is worth about 5,000 pounds?" "Oh" he said "more like 2,000 pounds". We then got the dray and lifted the nugget into it and carted it down to my hut, which stood about 1 1/2 chain to the north of the old puddling machine. We took it out of the dray and put it in the fireplace, built a good fire on it and kept it burning for about 10 hours, leaving it cool for 2 hours, we sat up all night breaking it free from quartz. My wife, my mate and myself were the only persons who saw the nugget as it was first found.

John Deason, left, Catherine Deason, and Richard Oates, 1869. Photographer William Parker. Courtesy Dunolly Museum. When it was cool we broke 70lbs. quartz away from it . Besides detached pieces of gold there was one solid piece of it that weighted 128 lbs. troy (1,536 oz.). This was on the bottom of the nugget as it lay on the ground. There was a great deal of loose gold when the quartz was broken off. The 70 lbs. of quartz broken away had course and fine gold through it. It was taken to Mr. Edward Udey's battery close by and a load of other quartz with no gold in it was crushed with it and 60 oz. of smelted gold was obtained. Several small pieces of gold and quartz were broken off and given to friends after the burning. About 5 oz. of gold was given away and this has never been reckoned in with the weight of the nugget as sold to the bank. I still have a small piece of the gold, the only bit that is left (2-3dwts now in the Melbourne National Museum). The total weight of the gold was over 200 lbs. troy (2,400 oz.) It was put in a calico bag and taken in Mr. Edey's spring cart to the London Bank, Dunolly. My mate, Mr. Udey and I went with it. The gold was smelted and yielded 2,380 oz. of gold 23 carots fine. The bank paid us 9,583 pounds for it.   The death of John Deason The following is a newspaper article from the Ballarat Courier on Wednesday 15 Sep 1915.. WELCOME STRANGER NUGGET DEATH OF DISCOVERER. Mr John Deason, native of Teesco, Scilly Island. who came to Victoria in the early fifties and had resided is this district for nearly 50 years, died at Molia- gul. Deason ando the late Richard Oats found tlhe "Welcome Stranger" nugget at Moliagul. The decneased died in reduced circumstances. He was 86 years of age and leaves a widow and family. (On 5th February, 1819, the largest nugg- et found in Australia (the "Welcome Stranger') was discovered in Black Reef Gully, near Moliagul, a few inches from the sarfuce. Its weight was 2115 oz 17 cwt 14 gr, and its value about £9500. A granite monument erected by the Govern- ment marks the site.

Detail of the inscription on the Welcome Stranger monument, at Moliagul, Victoria, marking the site of the biggest gold nugget ever found. Sources: http://www.discoverychannel.com.au/images/worlds-biggest-gold-nuggets/ https://collections.museumvictoria.com.au/articles/3019 https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Finding_the_Welcome_Stranger_nugget http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/75148849 http://www.heritageaustralia.com.au/downloads/pdfs/Heritage%200607_Welcome%20Stranger.pdf Read the full article