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Today in History - August 19 British Troops Land in Maryland on the Way to Burn Washington | The Origins of Children’s Television
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Today in History - August 20 8-Hour Work Day
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Today in History - August 21 Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts
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Today in History - August 22 Let’s Go To The Fair! | Mexican Americans and United Farm Workers of America
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Today in History - August 23 Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!
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Today in History - August 24 William Penn Acquires the Lower Counties | The Panic of 1857
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Today in History - August 25 The Pinkertons
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Today in History - August 26 Steaming Along
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Today in History - August 27 A Case of Yellow Fever
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Today in History - August 28 Picketing for Suffrage
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Today in History - August 29 Life on the Farm | Hurricane Katrina
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Today in History - August 30 The Second Battle of Manassas
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Today in History - August 31 Edison Receives Patent for Kinetographic Camera
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Today in History - September 1 Phillis Wheatley | The Fall of Atlanta
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Today in History - September 2 The Rock Springs Massacre | Porgy and Bess
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Today in History - September 3 Treaty of Paris Signed | Frederick Douglass | Louis H. Sullivan
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Today in History - September 4 The Town of the Queen of Angels | Daniel H. Burnham
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Today in History - September 5 The Outlaw Jesse James | The First Labor Day
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Today in History - September 6 Jane Addams and Hull House | President McKinley Assassinated
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Today in History - September 7 The Panama Canal
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Today in History - September 8 The Galveston Storm | Quarry Workers’ International Union of North America
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Today in History - September 9 The Stono Rebellion
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Today in History - September 10 John Smith Assumes Presidency of Jamestown
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Today in History - September 11 Jenny Lind | 9/11
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Today in History - September 12 H. L. Mencken, Critic of the American “Booboisie” | Saint-Mihiel Offensive