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1971 – The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is formed.
Daily Words to Stew On: ‘The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other…’
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May Day – International Workers’ Day in most countries.
1886 – U.S. general strike for eight-hour work day begins.
Daily Words to Stew On: ‘We make a living by what we do…’
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1789 – George Washington inaugurated as the first president of the United States of America.
Daily Words to Stew On: ‘Dissent is the highest form…’
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1845 – Macon Allen and Robert Morris Jr. of Massachusetts become the first African Americans to open a law practice in the United States.
Daily Words to Stew On: ‘What would you think of me if I were capable…’
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1934 – FDR signs the Home Owners Loan Act.
Daily Words to Stew On: ‘I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am…’
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1861 – West Virginia secedes from Virginia after Virginia secedes from the U.S.
Daily Words to Stew On: ‘Mere passive citizenship is not enough…’
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1607 – The first British settlers to establish an American colony land at Cape Henry, VA.
Daily Words to Stew On: ‘How far that little candle throws…’
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1944 – United Negro College Fund incorporates.
Daily Words to Stew On: ‘Obama is not a brown-skinned anti-war socialist…’
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1877 – Federal troops are ordered out of New Orleans as an act to end the North’s post-Civil War rule in the South.
Daily Words to Stew On: ‘There is no calamity greater than…’
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1918 – National Urban League forms.
Daily Words to Stew On: ‘Can we actually suppose that we are wasting…’
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Earth Day
Daily Words to Stew On: ‘You can only protect liberties…’
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1984 – In France, it was announced that doctors had found the virus believed to cause AIDS.
Daily Words to Stew On: ‘Freedom is the right to question…’
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1914 – The “Ludlow Massacre” took the lives of five men, two women, and twelve children. Company “guards,” hired by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and other mine operators, machine-gunned and set afire a union tent camp of strikers.
Daily Words to Stew On: ‘Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty…’
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1775 – The American Revolution begins at Lexington Common with the “shot heard ’round the world.”
Daily Words to Stew On: ‘In our personal ambitions we are individualists…’
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1958 – A U.S. federal court rules that poet Ezra Pound is to be released from an insane asylum.
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