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Re: 12/6/2015
« Reply #15 on: December 06, 2015, 02:38:22 AM »
Today's Highlight in History:

On Dec. 6, 1865, the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, abolishing slavery, was ratified as Georgia became the 27th state to endorse it.
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Re: 12/6/2015
« Reply #16 on: December 06, 2015, 02:38:48 AM »
On this date:
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Re: 12/6/2015
« Reply #17 on: December 06, 2015, 02:39:09 AM »
In 1790, Congress moved to Philadelphia from New York.
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Re: 12/6/2015
« Reply #18 on: December 06, 2015, 02:39:29 AM »
In 1884, Army engineers completed construction of the Washington Monument by setting an aluminum capstone atop the obelisk.
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Re: 12/6/2015
« Reply #19 on: December 06, 2015, 02:39:58 AM »
In 1889, Jefferson Davis, the first and only president of the Confederate States of America, died in New Orleans.
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Re: 12/6/2015
« Reply #20 on: December 06, 2015, 02:40:20 AM »
In 1907, the worst mining disaster in U.S. history occurred as 362 men and boys died in a coal mine explosion in Monongah (muh-NAHN'-guh), West Virginia.
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Re: 12/6/2015
« Reply #21 on: December 06, 2015, 02:40:39 AM »
In 1917, some 2,000 people died when an explosives-laden French cargo ship collided with a Norwegian vessel at the harbor in Halifax, Nova Scotia, setting off a blast that devastated the city.
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Re: 12/6/2015
« Reply #22 on: December 06, 2015, 02:41:05 AM »
In 1922, the Anglo-Irish Treaty, which established the Irish Free State, came into force one year to the day after it was signed in London.
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Re: 12/6/2015
« Reply #23 on: December 06, 2015, 02:41:27 AM »
In 1939, the Cole Porter musical comedy "Du Barry Was a Lady" opened on Broadway.
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Re: 12/6/2015
« Reply #24 on: December 06, 2015, 02:41:50 AM »
In 1947, Everglades National Park in Florida was dedicated by President Harry S. Truman.
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Re: 12/6/2015
« Reply #25 on: December 06, 2015, 03:35:37 AM »
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Re: 12/6/2015
« Reply #26 on: December 06, 2015, 03:36:40 AM »
In 1957, America's first attempt at putting a satellite into orbit failed as Vanguard TV3 rose about 4 feet off a Cape Canaveral launch pad before crashing down and exploding.
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Re: 12/6/2015
« Reply #27 on: December 06, 2015, 03:37:05 AM »
In 1969, a free concert by The Rolling Stones at the Altamont Speedway in Alameda County, California, was marred by the deaths of four people, including one who was stabbed by a Hell's Angel.
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Re: 12/6/2015
« Reply #28 on: December 06, 2015, 04:22:17 AM »
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Re: 12/6/2015
« Reply #29 on: December 06, 2015, 04:22:41 AM »
In 1971, the original Auto-Train, which carried rail passengers and their motor vehicles from Lorton, Virginia, to Sanford, Florida, went into operation. (Although the privately owned line went out of business in 1981, Amtrak revived the service in 1983.)
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