On September 22, 1862, U. S. President Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation to declare that all slaves in rebel states should be free on January 1, 1863.
On this date in 2014, Scotland’s voters rejected proposed national secession from the United Kingdom.
And an armed intruder entered the White House unimpeded. Omar Gonzalez, carrying a knife, went over a fence of the White House, ran 70 yards to it, entered thorough an unlocked front door, overpowered a Secret Service agent, and went into the ceremonial East Room.
On this date in 1982, Carnegie Mellon U. professor Scott Fahlman proposed punctuating some e-mail messages with an improvised, horizontal ‘smiling face.’
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On this date in 1881, U. S. President James Garfield died of wounds that were inflicted by an assassin.
