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Today in history: The shameful forced removal of Japanese-Americans
feature President Franklin Roosevelt signed an executive order to permit the forcible removal of Japanese-Americans from parts of the West Coast
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Today in history: The death of a president
feature On this day in 1994, President Nixon died at 81
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Today in history: The birth of the bachelor president
feature James Buchanan was the only president who never married
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Today in history: The death of Osama bin Laden
feature Three years ago, President Obama announced that the leader of al Qaeda had been killed
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Today in history: The White House gets a bowling alley
feature Although he wasn't much of a bowler, Truman began the tradition in 1947
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Today in history: April 26
feature On this day in 1865, President Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth was killed after a manhunt
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Today in history: Nixon's world-changing trip to China
feature In 1972, President Nixon arrived in China for a historic visit. Three years later, on the same date, two of his cabinet members were sentenced to prison for Watergate.
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Today in history: The country's first cabinet meeting
feature In Jefferson's words, they clashed like "fighting cocks"
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Today in history: The two-term limitation begins
feature In 1951, the 22nd Amendment was ratified, limiting U.S. presidents to two terms
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Today in history: The beginning of the biggest political scandal in U.S. history
feature In 1972, five men were arrested for breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington
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Today in history: The most sweeping domestic legislation in a century
feature Happy birthday, Civil Rights Act
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Today in history: October 8
feature In 1998, the House of Representatives voted to move ahead with impeachment proceedings against President Clinton
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Today in History: October 15
feature In 1860, Abraham Lincoln decided to grow a beard
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Today in history: October 16
feature President Kennedy was informed that the Soviet Union had placed nuclear missiles in Cuba. It was the beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis that nearly led to nuclear war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union
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Today in history: George H.W. Bush was born
feature The 41st president was born in 1924
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Today in history: The federal income tax is born
feature Probably not the happiest day in American history
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Today in history: "In God We Trust" becomes America's official motto
feature The first paper money with that motto was printed in 1957
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Today in history: The end of American neutrality in WWII
feature In 1941, President Roosevelt signed a bill to send supplies to countries fighting the Axis powers
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Today in history: The death of a president
feature In 1969, Dwight D. Eisenhower died. He left behind quite a legacy.
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Today in history: Nixon limits cigarette ads
feature In 1970, the avid pipe smoker supported the legislation at the urging of public health advocates
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Today in history: The U.S. boycotts the Moscow Olympics
feature Jimmy Carter ordered the boycott in retaliation for the invasion of Afghanistan
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Today in history: October 3
feature In 1965, President Johnson signed a bill abolishing immigration quotas
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Today in history: September 24
feature In 1869, the stock market plummeted
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Today in history: October 2
feature In 1967, Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the Supreme Court's first black justice
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