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Today is
Emancipation Day in the state of
Florida.
On this day for the United States
Events
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1861 –
American Civil War: The state of
Kentucky proclaims its
neutrality, which will last until
September 3 when
Confederate forces enter the state.
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1862 –
U.S. President
Abraham Lincoln signs the
Homestead Act into law.
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1864 –
American Civil War:
Battle of Ware Bottom Church – In the
Virginia
Bermuda Hundred Campaign, 10,000 troops fight in this
Confederate victory.
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1873 –
Levi Strauss and
Jacob Davis receive a
U.S.
patent for blue
jeans with copper rivets.
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1891 –
History of cinema: First public display of
Thomas Alva Edison's prototype
kinetoscope (shown at Edison's Laboratory for a convention of the National Federation of Women's Clubs).
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1902 –
Cuba gains independence from the
United States.
Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the first
President of Cuba.
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1916 – The
Saturday Evening Post publishes its first cover with a
Norman Rockwell painting ("Boy with Baby Carriage").
- 1916 – The small town of
Codell, Kansas is struck by a
tornado. Incredibly, the same town was also hit in
1917 and
1918 on the exact same date
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1927 – At 07:52
Charles Lindbergh takes off from
Roosevelt Field in
Long Island,
New York, on the world's first solo nonstop flight across the
Atlantic Ocean, touching down at
Le Bourget Field in
Paris at 22:22 the next day.
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1932 –
Amelia Earhart takes off from
Newfoundland to begin the world's first solo nonstop flight across the
Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing in
Ireland the next day.
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1949 – In the
United States of America, the
Armed Forces Security Agency (predecessor to the
National Security Agency) is established.
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1969 – The
Battle of Hamburger Hill in
Vietnam ends.
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1983 – First publications of the discovery of the
virus that causes
AIDS in the journal
Science by
Luc Montagnier and
Robert Gallo individually.
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1984 – The first line of the
Miami Metrorail in
Miami, Florida opens.
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1985 –
Radio Martí, part of the
Voice of America service, begins broadcasting to
Cuba.
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1996 –
Gay rights: The
Supreme Court of the United States rules in
Romer v. Evans against a law that would have prevented any city, town or county in the state of
Colorado from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of
gays and lesbians.