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It appeared to be just another Friday afternoon for 55-year-old Fay Desgoutte as she prepared jerk pork and chicken meals for sale at the Kingston 10 premises that double as home and business on Newleigh Avenue, Cassia Park. But May 27 was anything...

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Born: 1/18/1856 Hollidaysburg, PennsylvaniaDied: 8/4/1931 Idlewild, MichiganDaniel Hale Williams was an American general surgeon who, in 1893, performed the second documented successful pericardium surgery to repair a wound. He also founded Provident Hospital, the first non-segregated hospital in

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(1865) Abraham Lincoln, “Second Inaugural Address”

On Saturday March 4, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated and began his second term as President. His address to the audience of thousands of spectators was brief, one of the shortest inaugural addresses on record. The Civil War was drawing to a close as Union Armies were bearing down

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Michael Griffith

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Fort Pillow Massacre (1864)

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