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United States: Juneteenth
(Observed on this date annually to commemorate the emancipation of 250,000 slaves in Texas: 06/19/1865)
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1897
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Montgomery Barrett (Indiana-born Journalist, Novelist)
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1831
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John L. Buchanan (Virginia-born President of the University of Arkansas: 1894-1902)
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1766
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Edward Tiffin (English-born First Governor of Ohio)
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1905
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Rush Dew Holt (U.S. Senator from West Virginia)
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1945
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Aung San Suu Kyi (Burma/Myanmar-born 1991 Nobel Laureate for Peace)
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1877
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Charles Coburn (Georgia-born Academy Award-Winning Actor)
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1934
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Gina Rowlands (Wisconsin-born Actress)
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1941
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Lou Gehrig (New York City-born Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame)
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1786
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Nathanael Greene (Rhode Island-born General in the American Revolution)
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1937
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James M. Barrie (Scottish Dramatist; Author of Peter Pan)
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1946
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Walter A. Sheaffer (Iowa-born Inventor of the World's First Practical Self-Filling Fountain Pen)
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1586
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English Colonists Leave Roanoke Island, North Carolina, After Failing to Establish England's First Permanent Settlement in America
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1814
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Fort Shelby, Wisconsin Is Dedicated in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin
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1843
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Georgia's Whig Party Holds Its First State Convention in Milledgeville
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1852
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By an Act of Congress, the St. Peter's River Is Renamed with Its Original Dakota Name, "Minnesota"
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1862
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Slavery Is Outlawed in U.S. Territories
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1864
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As It Exits France's Cherbourg Harbor, the CSS Alabama Is Sunk by the USS Kearsarge
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In Georgia, Confederate Forces Retreat from Pine Mountain and Lost Mountain Toward Marietta
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1865
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In Galveston, Union General Gordon Granger Emancipates 250,000 Texas Slaves
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1873
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A Ceremony Is Held for the University of Minnesota's First Two Graduates
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1879
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General William Tecumseh Sherman Tells Graduates of the Michigan Military Academy That "War is Hell"
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1885
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The French Ship Is're Arrives in New York City, Delivering the Disassembled Parts of the Statute of Liberty
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1886
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William Howard Taft Marries Helen "Nellie" Herron in Cincinnati, Ohio
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1890
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"The Cowboys' Christmas Ball, " by Poet and Ranchman Larry Chittenden, Is First Published in the Anson Texas Western
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African-American Families in Washington's Puget Sound Region Celebrate the First Juneteenth Observance
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1912
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By Executive Order President William Howard Taft Sets Aside Land for the New Town of Hydaburg, Alaska
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1917
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Britain's King George V Changes the Royal Family's Germanic Saxe-Coburg-Gotha Surname to Windsor
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1919
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Texas Congressman Claude B. Hudspeth Calls Mexican President Venustiano Carranza "That Spineless Cactus of Mexico"
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1923
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The Seattle Times Fires E. B. White
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1934
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Congress Passes the Silver Purchase Act, Which Nationalizes Silver Stocks and Called for Silver to Equal 1/3 of the Treasury's Gold Holdings
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1942
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At the Annual Governor's Conference in Columbus, Ohio, Oregon Governor Earl Snell Expresses Concern About Japan Bombing His State
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1944
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United States Scores Major Victory Against Japanese in Battle of the Philippine Sea
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1947
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Britain and France Invite 25 European Nations to Develop a Plan for Rebuilding War-Torn Europe
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Albert Boyd Breaks the 600-mph Barrier, Flying a U.S. F-80 Aircraft over California's Mojave Desert
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In Florida, the Banana River Naval Air Station (now Patrick Air Force Base) Is Dedicated
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1953
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Convicted of Conspiracy to Commit Espionage, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Are Put to Death in the Electric Chair
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1965
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In Vietnam, Nguyen Cao Ky Becomes Premiers of the Country's 9th Government in the Last 20 Months
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1971
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In Columbus, Georgia a Civil Rights Protest over the Firing of 7 African-American Police Officers Turns Violent
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1980
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Three Gunmen Attacked the British Embassy in Baghdad
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1986
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Milwaukee Wisconsin's Airport Expands to Include International Traffic
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