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Movie history events from 1844
19th May: Nicholas and Joanna Van Ryn, powerful landowners, invite Miranda Wells, an ambitious farmer's daughter and distant relative, to live at their mansion on the Dragonwyck estate to act as a companion to their young daughter Katrine. (Hudson Valley, New York) (Dragonwyck)
27th June: Joseph and Hyrum Smith are murdered when an anti-Mormon mob breaks into a jail where they are being held. (Carthage, Illinois) (September Dawn)