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Today in history: February 7
feature In 1963, President John F. Kennedy banned travel, financial, and commercial transactions with Communist Cuba
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Today in history: Clinton declares a national emergency
feature "Serbs out, peacekeepers in, refugees back"
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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 country's first cabinet meeting
feature In Jefferson's words, they clashed like "fighting cocks"
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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: A president lies
feature And later admits it
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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: November 7
feature In 1876, America suffered a very confusing presidential election
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Today in history: A humiliating end to the Vietnam War
feature In 1975, President Gerald Ford ordered the evacuation of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon as North Vietnamese troops closed in
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Today in history: February 4
feature In 1789, George Washington was unanimously elected to be the first president
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Today in history: February 10
feature In 1967, the presidential line of succession was cleared up
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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 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 birth of the 'accidental president'
feature Gerald Ford was the only person in American history to become both vice president and president without ever being elected to either office
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Today in history: September 6
feature In 1901, President McKinley was shot
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Today in history: September 10
feature Andrew Jackson started the 'Bank War'
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Today in history: President Kennedy's eerie visit to Arlington National Cemetery
feature Eight months later, he was buried there
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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: America gets its 6th president in 9 years
feature In 1850, Millard Fillmore was sworn in
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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: October 15
feature In 1860, Abraham Lincoln decided to grow a beard
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Today in history: October 23
feature In 1973, President Richard Nixon agreed to turn over nine secret White House recordings to a federal judge
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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: December 2
feature In 1823, President James Monroe outlined the Monroe Doctrine
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