Today in History - September 22 https://t.co/U1mm06P43Y On September 22, 1862, partly in response to the heavy losses inflicted at the Battle of Antietam, President Abraham Lincoln issued a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, threatening to free all enslaved people in the…
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Great new resource! https://t.co/71xvwC6D7q Great new resource! https://t.co/71xvwC6D7q — Boundary Stones (@BoundaryStones) Sep 21, 2022
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The Metropolitan Police Department is widely credited with carrying out the first large-scale sting operation in 1976, playing cartoonish mafiosos to fence stolen goods in Northeast D.C. But did MPD's new tactic ensnare criminals or entice crime? https://t.co/oJWnHw9jZo The …
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The Ebbitt House was located on the southeast corner of 14th and F Streets, N.W., in downtown Washington, D.C. It was a favorite hotel for military and other government officials. The National Press Club Building is now on the site. https://t.co/Rd2SdQMeRK The Ebbitt House was…
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Nelson Mandela visited D.C. many times and was celebrated with crowds and fanfare. But his first visit in 1990 was an awkward one: he publicly rebuked President George H.W. Bush at the White House for his praise of South Africa's apartheid government: https://t.co/DzjSdm0q9w …
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Marriott’s new Bethesda headquarters celebrates the company’s past https://t.co/WgeNIMMrLH Marriott’s new Bethesda headquarters celebrates the company’s past https://t.co/WgeNIMMrLH — Streets of Washington (@StreetsOfDC) Sep 21, 2022
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Today in History - September 21 https://t.co/cnkXXFg2JL The nation’s first daily newspaper, the Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser, began publication on September 21, 1784. Continue reading. On September 21, 1595, Don Juan de Oñate's petition and contract for the conq…
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