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Today in History
| 1776 | Americans begin shelling British troops in Boston. | ||
| 1781 | Maryland ratifies the Articles of Confederation. She is the last state to sign. | ||
| 1797 | The Directory of Great Britain authorizes vessels of war to board and seize neutral vessels, particularly if the ships are American. | ||
| 1815 | To put an end to robberies by the Barbary pirates, the United States declares war on Algiers. | ||
| 1836 | Texas declares independence from Mexico on Sam Houston’s 43rd birthday. | ||
| 1853 | The Territory of Washington is organized. | ||
| 1865 | Lincoln rejects Confederate General Robert E. Lee‘s plea for peace talks, demanding unconditional surrender. | ||
| 1867 | The first Reconstruction Act is passed by Congress. | ||
| 1877 | Rutherford B. Hayes is declared president by one vote the day before the inauguration. | ||
| 1889 | Congress passes the Indian Appropriations Bill, proclaiming unassigned lands in the public domain; the first step toward the famous Oklahoma Land Rush. | ||
| 1896 | Bone Mizell, the famed cowboy of Florida, is sentenced to two years of hard labor in the state pen for cattle rustling. He would only serve a small portion of the sentence. | ||
| 1901 | Congress passes the Platt amendment, which limits Cuban autonomy as a condition for withdrawal of U.S. troops. | ||
| 1908 | An international conference on arms reduction opens in London. | ||
| 1908 | Gabriel Lippman introduces the new three-dimensional color photography at the Academy of Sciences. | ||
| 1917 | Congress passes the Jones Act making Puerto Rico a territory of the United States and makes the inhabitants U.S. citizens. | ||
| 1923 | In Italy, Mussolini admits that women have a right to vote, but declares that the time is not right. | ||
| 1930 | Novelist D.H. Lawrence dies of tuberculosis in a sanitarium in Vence, France, at the age of 45. | ||
| 1943 | The center of Berlin is bombed by the RAF. Some 900 tons of bombs are dropped in a half hour. | ||
| 1945 | MacArthur raises the U.S. flag on Corregidor in the Philippines. | ||
| 1946 | Ho Chi Minh is elected president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. | ||
| 1951 | The U.S. Navy launches the K-1, the first modern submarine designed to hunt enemy submarines. | ||
| 1955 | Claudette Colvin refuses to give up her seat in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before Rosa Parks‘ famous arrest for the same offense. | ||
| 1956 | France grants independence to Morocco. | ||
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| 1965 | More than 150 U.S. and South Vietnamese planes bomb two bases in North Vietnam in the first of the “Rolling Thunder” raids. | ||
| 1968 | The siege of Khe Sanh ends in Vietnam, the U.S. Marines stationed there are still in control of the mountain top. | ||
| 1973 | Federal forces surround Wounded Knee, South Dakota, which is occupied by members of the militant American Indian Movement who are holding at least 10 hostages. | ||
| 1974 | A grand jury in Washington, D.C. concludes that Nixon was indeed involved in the Watergate cover-up. | ||
| 1978 | Czech pilot Vladimir Remek becomes the first non-Russian, non-American in space. | ||
| 1981 | The United States plans to send 20 more advisors and $25 million in military aid to El Salvador. |
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White Florida police chief resigns after making racist comment to department’s only black officer
City manager Danielle Judd told the Florida
Times-Union in a phone interview Monday, “We won’t tolerate this kind of
behavior in any department. It’s not an atmosphere I would want any
employee to work in.”
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