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PAST EVENTS THAT MADE NEWS HISTORY
IT HAPPENED ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
Concorde G-BOAA takes off from London Heathrow on
its first passenger service to Bahrain.
Concorde entered service on 21 January 1976 with Air
France from Paris-Roissy and British Airways from
London Heathrow.
Air France flew its last commercial flight on 30 May 2003
with BA retiring its Concorde fleet on 24 October 2003.
British Airways Concorde crew.
Concorde flight deck.
The passengers onboard British Airways Concorde.
The Concorde passenger cabin at the Museum of Flight near Seattle.

PRESIDENTIAL PARDON ON THIS DAY IN 1863
President Abraham Lincoln announced a grant of amnesty for
Emilie Todd Helm, his wife Mary Lincoln’s half sister and the
widow of a Confederate general.
The pardon was one of the first under Lincoln’s Proclamation
of Amnesty and Reconstruction, which he had announced less
than a week before.
The plan, the president’s blueprint for the reintegration of the
South into the Union, allowed for former Confederates to be
granted amnesty if they took an oath to the United States.
The option was open to all but the highest officials of the
Confederacy. Lincoln’s sister-in-law received the pardon,
but never took the required oath.
Emilie Todd Helm (1836 – 1930)

THE POLITICAL JOKE OF THE DAY FROM FOX

Biden pardons son Hunter Biden ahead of exit
from Oval Office.
President Biden previously said he would not pardon his son.
(TNND) — Hunter Biden, was facing possible prison time for
federal felony gun and tax convictions.
The decision, which reverses Biden’s past promises not to use
the extraordinary powers of the presidency for the benefit of his
family members, comes weeks before Hunter Biden was set to
receive his punishment after his trial conviction in the gun case
and less than two months before President-elect Donald Trump
is set to return to the White House.

HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY IN 1974
In a controversial executive action, President Gerald Ford
pardoned his disgraced predecessor Richard M. Nixon for
any crimes he may have committed or participated in while
in office. Ford later defended this action before the House
Judiciary Committee, explaining that he wanted to end the
national divisions created by the Watergate scandal.

Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994)
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