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Election Day
Voters in Cleveland, Ohio, cast their ballots. Election Day is the day set aside by law for United States citizens to vote for candidates for public office. Since 1845, it has been on the Tuesday after the first Monday in … Continue reading
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Columbus Day
Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer. In 1492, he set sail to find a western trade route to Asia. The king and queen of Spain paid for his voyage. Columbus sailed on the flagship Santa Maria. He also brought two … Continue reading
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Hispanic Heritage Month
A group of young people wore traditional clothing in a Hispanic Heritage Month parade in New York City. In 1968, the United States Congress declared that the week of September 15 would be National Hispanic Week in honor of Hispanic … Continue reading
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Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Women’s Right to Vote
Suffragist Rosalie Jones led a group of protesters down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., as part of the suffrage parade of 1913. August was recently named National Women’s Suffrage Month to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the ratification, or formal … Continue reading
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National Navajo Code Talkers Day
Navajo code talkers in the U. S. Marine Corps relayed orders in the Navajo language on a field radio in the South Pacific. Cipher machines, or machines that create coded messages, did not work well in the jungles of the … Continue reading
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