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Today in History highlights and milestones
On this date 1816 Peru declared its independence from Spain. In 1776 news of the Declaration of Independence reached New York and Washington read it to his soldiers. Elias Howe was born in 1819. President Taylor died in 1850 after a short term. In 1940 the Duke of Windsor became governor of the Bahamas. Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten announced in 1947. Soviet threats to the United States in 1960 over Cuba. In 1969 a note of U.S. war planes moving from France to Britain and West Germany after France refused stockpiling. Five years ago Johnson and Thieu to meet in Honolulu.
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