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The Chicago to St. Louis Norfolk and Western (nee Wabash) “Blue Bird” makes its 8:32 p.m. stop at the Edwardsville annex in 1966.
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This day in history:
1906 – Cunard Line’s RMS Mauretania is launched at the Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson shipyard in Newcastle aloft Tyne, England.
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1910 – The ocean liner SS France, afterwards accepted as the “Versailles of the Atlantic”, is launched.
1946 – The aboriginal Cannes Film Festival is held, accepting been delayed seven years due to World War II.
1962 – James Meredith, an African American, is briefly barred from entering the University of Mississippi.
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1967 – RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 is launched at John Brown & Company, Clydebank, Scotland.
1971 – Accepting attenuated afterwards authoritative landfall in Nicaragua the antecedent day, Blow Irene regains abundant backbone to be renamed Blow Olivia, authoritative it the aboriginal accepted blow to cantankerous from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific.
2001 – In an abode to a collective affair of Congress and the American people, U.S. President George W. Bush declares a “War on Terror”.
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2007 – Between 15,000 and 20,000 protesters marched on Jena, Louisiana, in abutment of six atramentous youths who had been bedevilled of assaulting a white classmate.
2011 – The United States aggressive ends its “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, acceptance gay men and women to serve aboveboard for the aboriginal time.
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