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  2. American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    80,000+ slaves dead (disease) 60,000 documented plus 'tens of thousands' undocumented gives a minimum of 80,000 slave deaths. [10] The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union [f] ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in ...

  3. Jim Crow laws - Wikipedia

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    Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television 21 (August 2001): 273–91. Sterner, Richard. The Negro's Share (1943) detailed statistics; Toth, Casey (December 26, 2017). "Churches once abandoned by Jim Crow are being rediscovered". News & Observer. Wood, Amy Louise and Natalie J. Ring (eds.), Crime and Punishment in the Jim Crow South.

  4. Juneteenth - Wikipedia

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    Black Texans: A History of African Americans in Texas, 1528–1995. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 978-0806128788. Blanck, Emily. "Galveston on San Francisco Bay: Juneteenth in the Fillmore District, 1945–2016." Western Historical Quarterly 50.2 (2019): 85–112. Galveston on San Francisco Bay: Juneteenth in the Fillmore District, 1945–2016

  5. 1952 - Wikipedia

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    1952 in various calendars. Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1952. 1952 (MCMLII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1952nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 952nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 52nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1950s decade.

  6. December 1993 - Wikipedia

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    December 6, 1993 (Monday) December 6, 1993: NASA astronaut Kathryn C. Thornton jettisons a damaged HST solar panel into space during STS-61 EVA #2. STS-61: Astronauts Musgrave and Hoffman began the mission's third extravehicular activity at 10:34 p.m. EST. [7] Between 10:00 p.m. on December 6 and 1:00 a.m. on December 7, 46-year-old Lynn Marie ...

  7. War of 1812 - Wikipedia

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    Notable single-ship engagements include USS Constitution vs HMS Guerriere on 19 August 1812, [284] USS United States vs HMS Macedonian on 25 October, [285] USS Constitution vs HMS Java on 29–30 December, [157] [286] HMS Shannon vs USS Chesapeake on 1 June 1813 (the bloodiest such action of the war), [287] HMS Phoebe vs USS Essex on 28 March ...

  8. Romanian revolution - Wikipedia

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    The Romanian revolution (Romanian: Revoluția română) was a period of violent civil unrest in Romania during December 1989 as a part of the revolutions of 1989 that occurred in several countries around the world, primarily within the Eastern Bloc. [6] The Romanian revolution started in the city of Timișoara and soon spread throughout the ...

  9. Operation Barbarossa - Wikipedia

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    On 18 December 1941, Himmler and Hitler discussed the "Jewish question", and Himmler noted the meeting's result in his appointment book: "To be annihilated as partisans". According to Christopher Browning , "annihilating Jews and solving the so-called 'Jewish question' under the cover of killing partisans was the agreed-upon convention between ...