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Frederick Douglass received one vote from the Kentucky delegation at the Republican convention in Chicago, effectively making him the first black candidate to have his name placed in nomination for U.S. president. (The nomination went to Benjamin Harrison.)
In 1888,
In 1947,
the U.S. Senate joined the House in overriding President Harry S. Truman’s veto of the Taft-Hartley Act, designed to limit the power of organized labor.
In 1972,
President Richard Nixon and White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman discussed using the CIA to obstruct the FBI’s Watergate investigation. (Revelation of the tape recording of this conversation sparked Nixon’s resignation in 1974.)
In 1972,
President Richard Nixon signed Title IX barring discrimination on the basis of sex for “any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.”
In 1988,
James E. Hansen, a climatologist at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, told a Senate panel that global warming of the earth caused by the “greenhouse effect” was a reality.
In 1993,
Lorena Bobbitt of Prince William County, Virginia, sexually mutilated her husband, John, after he’d allegedly raped her. (John Bobbitt was acquitted of marital sexual assault; Lorena Bobbitt was acquitted of malicious wounding by reason of insanity.)
In 2018,
Trump administration officials said the government knew the location of all children in its custody after separating them from their families at the border, and that it was working to reunite them.
President Barack Obama named Gen. David Petraeus to replace Gen. Stanley McChrystal as the Afghanistan commander.
The NHL’s Board of Governors approved the proposed 3-on-3 overtime change.
Two siblings from the Flying Wallendas safely crossed New York’s Times Square on a high wire strung between two skyscrapers, 25 stories above the pavement.
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