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Today in history: May 31
feature In 1988, President Reagan gave a speech to Soviet students about freedom
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Today in history: The death of a great president
feature In 2004, the Republican Party lost one of its most revered figures
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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 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: The president dies after just 16 months in office
feature Zachary Taylor's cause of death was never determined
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Today in history: America gets its 6th president in 9 years
feature In 1850, Millard Fillmore was sworn in
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Today in history: JFK's "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech
feature In 1963, President Kennedy delivered one of the most famous addresses of his presidency
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Today in history: The beginning of an adventurous journey
feature In 1803, Lewis and Clark got the green light to explore the Louisiana Purchase
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Today in history: The Battle of Gettysburg rages on
feature In 1863, the final day of the Civil War's most pivotal battle
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Today in history: The Lisbon Protocol
feature To assure nuclear reduction, the United States and Russia pressured former Soviet republics to destroy weapons or transfer them to Russian control
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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 death of a president
feature On this day in 1994, President Nixon died at 81
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Today in history: The 'XYZ Affair'
feature In 1797, President John Adams dished details about a dispute with France that nearly led to war with Napoleon
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Today in history: JFK sends federal marshals to Montgomery
feature Their mission was to keep order after race riots broke out
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Today in history: Nixon goes to Moscow
feature He was the first sitting president to visit the Soviet capital
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Today in history: The death of a Civil War hero
feature Ulysses S. Grant was also our 18th president
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Today in history: Jimmy Carter's 'malaise' speech
feature He actually never even said the infamous word
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Today in history: The death of 'Blue Whiskey Van'
feature Martin Van Buren was America's eighth president
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Today in history: July 12
feature In 1957, Dwight Eisenhower became the first U.S. president to ride in a helicopter
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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 secret bombing of Cambodia
feature As the Vietnam War raged on, President Nixon decided to surreptitiously bomb a neighboring country
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Today in history: JFK is buried... again
feature President John F. Kennedy was buried a second time in 1967 — at a gravesite in Arlington National Cemetery that had to be specially constructed
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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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