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Thursday, April 13, 2017
Today in History
| 1598 | The Edict of Nantes grants political rights to French Huguenots. | |
| 1775 | Lord North extends the New England Restraining Act to South Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland. The act forbids trade with any country other than Britain and Ireland. | |
| 1861 | After 34 hours of bombardment, Union-held Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederates. | |
| 1864 | Union forces under Gen. Sherman begin their devastating march through Georgia. | |
| 1902 | J.C. Penny opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming. | |
| 1919 | British forces kill hundreds of Indian nationalists in the Amritsar Massacre. | |
| 1933 | The first flight over Mount Everest is completed by Lord Clydesdale. | |
| 1941 | German troops capture Belgrade, Yugoslavia. | |
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| 1943 | Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Jefferson Memorial. | |
| 1945 | Vienna falls to Soviet troops. | |
| 1960 | The first navigational satellite is launched into Earth’s orbit. | |
| 1961 | The U.N. General Assembly condemns South Africa because of apartheid. | |
| 1964 | Sidney Poitier becomes the first black individual to win an Oscar for best actor. | |
| 1970 | An oxygen tank explodes on Apollo 13, preventing a planned moon landing and jeopardizing the lives of the three-man crew. | |
| 1976 | The U.S. Federal Reserve begins issuing $2 bicentennial notes. | |
| 1979 | The world’s longest doubles ping-pong match ends after 101 hours. |
87-year-old woman visits the ‘slave cabin’ she was born in
The cabin was the only one left of nearly a
dozen that were built in 1853 at the Point of Pines Plantation in Edisto
Island, S.C.
Florida school abused 3-year-old with cerebral palsy
Attorney Aaron Bates, who is representing
the family in the lawsuit, tells KPTV that the administration is also at
fault for not providing proper training to its teachers for dealing
with special needs students.
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