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This week in history: June 12-18
June 12 1942: Anne Frank, a German-born Jewish girl living in Amsterdam, received a diary for her 13th birthday, less than a month before she and her family went into hiding from the Nazis. 1963: […]
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This week in history: June 5-11
June 51794: Congress passed the Neutrality Act, which prohibited Americans from taking part in any military action against a country that was at peace with the United States.1968: Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was shot and […]
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This week in history: April 3-9
April 3 1860: The first Pony Express mail delivery rides began; one heading west from St. Joseph, Missouri, and one heading east from Sacramento, California. 1882: Outlaw Jesse James was shot and killed by Robert […]
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This week in history: March 6-12
March 6 1820: President James Monroe signed the Missouri Compromise, which allowed Missouri to join the Union as a slave state and Maine to join as a free state. 1836: The Alamo in San Antonio, […]
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This week in history: Jan.1 to Jan. 7
Jan. 1 1808: The federal law prohibiting the importation of enslaved people to the United States took effect. 1818: Mary Shelley’s novel “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus” was first published in London, when Shelley was […]