Tuesday, January 1, 2008

On this date

J.D. Salinger, Author ("The Catcher in the Rye"), is 89
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in 1863 President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that slaves in rebel states were free.
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in 1859, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about New Year's Day. (See the cartoon and read an explanation.)

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