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6			1 The first civil rights sit-in began at Woolworth's in Greensboro, NC in 1960.	2 The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the Mexican War in 1848.	3 The 16th Amendment, establishing the legal basis for a federal income tax, was ratified in 1913.	4 George Washington was unanimously elected the first President of the United States in 1789.	5 Today is Constitution Day (Dia de la Constitucion) in Mexico.
7	6 The House of Representatives began determining grounds for the impeachment of Richard Nixon in 1974.	7 The nation of Grenada gained independence from Britain in 1974.	8 The Confederate States of America began its short, ill-fated existence in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1861.	9 The National Weather Service was authorized by Congress in 1870.	10 The Treaty of Paris ended the French and Indian War in 1763.	11 Robert Fulton patented the steamboat in 1809.	12 Abraham Lincoln was born at Sinking Spring Farm in Hardin County, Kentucky, in 1809.
8	13 Joseph L. Searles III became the first Black member of the New York Stock Exchange in 1970.	14 Black abolitionist and orator Frederick Douglass was born a slave in 1818.	15 The philosopher Socrates was sentenced to death in 399 BC.	16 Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba after the overthrow of President Fulgencio Batista in 1959.	17 The House of Representatives broke an electoral tie, resulting in the election of Thomas Jefferson as President and Aaron Burr as Vice President in 1801.	18 U.S. astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto, then considered to be the ninth planet in our solar system, in 1930.	19 The Soviet Union launched the Mir space station in 1986.
9	20 Nature photographer Ansel Adams was born in San Francisco, California in 1902.	21 Malcolm X was assassinated at New York City's Audubon Ballroom in 1965.	22 George Washington was born in Virginia in 1732. Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay was born in 1892.	23 William Edward Burghardt (W.E.B.) Du Bois was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts in 1868.	24 Wilhelm Grimm, one of the Brothers Grimm, was born in Hanau, Germany in 1786.	25 Paper currency was introduced in the U.S. by President Abraham Lincoln in 1862.	26 The Grand Canyon National Park was established in Arizona by an act of Congress in 1919.
10	27 The Shanghai Communique was issued in 1972.	28 The Salem witch trials began in 1692.	29 February 29th occurs in leap years like 2012.

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