Saturday, September 22, 2007

Today In History

9/22



AP Highlight in History:
On Sept. 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, declaring all slaves in rebel states should be free as of Jan. 1, 1863.

1776Nathan Hale was hanged as a spy by the British during the Revolutionary War.

1949The Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb

1975Sara Jane Moore failed in an attempt to shoot President Gerald R. Ford outside a San Francisco hotel.

1980The conflict between Iran and Iraq erupted into full-scale war.




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