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From: "Douglas/Ungaro" <>
Subject: LEIDESDORFF Steamship Business - August 2, 1847
Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 00:28:42 +0200


August 2, 1847 - "William A. Leidesdorff, born in the Danish West Indies
to a Danish father and a Black native mother, opens the first commercial
steamship service on San Francisco Bay" [California, USA].

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