TIME TO SPRUCE UP FOR SPRING!

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REPUBLICAN PARTY FOUNDED ON THIS DAY

Birthplace of the Republican Party | Postcard | Wisconsin Historical Society

In Ripon, Wisconsin, former members of the Whig Party met
to establish a new party
to oppose the spread of slavery into
the western territories.

The Whig Party, which was formed in 1834 to oppose the
“tyranny” of President
Andrew Jackson, had shown itself
incapable of coping with the national crisis over slavery.

With the successful introduction of the Kansas-Nebraska
Bill of 1854, an act that dissolved the terms of the
Missouri
Compromise
and allowed slave or free status to be decided
in the territories by popular sovereignty, the Whigs then 
disintegrated.

By February 1854, anti-slavery Whigs had begun meeting in
the upper midwestern states to discuss the formation of a
new party. One such meeting, in Wisconsin on March 20,
1854, is generally remembered as the founding meeting of
the Republican Party.

Birthplace of Republican Party Historical Marker

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Alvan Earle Bovay
(July 12, 1818 – January 13, 1903)

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Horace Greeley
(February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872)

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                              Republican Party | Definition, History, & Beliefs | Britannica

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WAR IN IRAQ BEGAN ON THIS DAY IN 2003

How Do You Judge the War in Iraq in 2023? - WSJ

Iraq War's 10th Anniversary: The Invasion - The Atlantic

On March 19, 2003, the United States, along with coalition
forces primarily from the United Kingdom,
initiated war on
Iraq
. Just after explosions began to rock Baghdad, Iraq’s
capital, U.S. President
George W. Bush announced in a
televised address, “At this hour, American and coalition
forces are in the early stages of military operations to
disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world
from grave danger.”

President Bush and his advisors built much of their case
for war on the specious claim that Iraq, under dictator
Saddam Hussein, possessed or was in the process of
building weapons of mass destruction.

No weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq. The
U.S. declared an end
to the war in Iraq on December 15,
2011, nearly ten years after the fighting began.
 

Bush Asks Congress For $74.7 Billion In War Aid
President George Bush (right) speaks to Donald Rumsfeld
and Paul Wolfowitz during a visit at the Pentagon on March
25, 2003.

America’s invasion of Iraq was a failure of strategy | The Australian

What Newspapers Looked Like The Day We Invaded Iraq

Iraq 2003: The Road to War | National Army Museum

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HARLEM RIOT BEGAN ON THIS DAY IN 1935

Harlem race riot of 1935... - RareNewspapers.com

A riot brook out in Harlem when local residents suspect that a
Black boy has been beaten, and possibly killed, by a white
business owner. Although the rumors turn out to be false,
the riot highlighted the struggles of Harlem’s historically Black community against discrimination during the Great Depression.

Many modern scholars consider the 1935 Harlem riot the first
modern race riot.

A wrecked storefront in Harlem, March 20, 1935. A... - New York: The Golden Age

Harlem Race Riot of 1935 | Black Then

THE BLACK SOCIAL HISTORY:: BLACK SOCIAL HISTORY : THE HARLEM RIOTS OF 1935 - WAS HARLEM'S FIRST ...

Harlem Race Riot (1935) • BlackPast

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DOWN PAYMENT ON MANSION MADE IN 1957

The Music Gates at Graceland | April 22, 1957

On March 19, 1957 – Elvis Presley put a $1,000 down payment on a
$102,500, 13.8 acre mansion in Memphis, Tennessee and called it
"Graceland."  

  
The mansion is the second-most-visited house in America after       
the
big white one on Pennsylvania Avenue.

Ingen tilgængelig billedbeskrivelse.

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