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HIGHLIGHTS OF PAST NEWS EVENTS

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Ulysses S. Grant (born Hiram Ulysses Grant)
(April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885) 

Grant refused to attend church services at West Point and
was given demerits for his intransigence.

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TOMB BUILT ON THIS DAY IN 1897

Grant’s Tomb, now formally known as General Grant National Memorial, is
the final resting place of Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885), the 18th President
of the United States, and his wife, Julia Dent Grant (1826–1902). Completed
in 1897, the tomb is located in Riverside Park in the Morningside Heights
neighborhood of Upper Manhattan in New York City, across the street from
the monumental Riverside Church. It was placed under the management of
the National Park Service in 1958.

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LOOKING BACK AT PAST NEWS

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Barbra (Barbara Joan) Streisand is 74 today.

Barbra’s song "Evergreen" for the film A Star is Born earned an
Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Original
Song in 1977.

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HIGHLIGHTS OF PAST NEWS

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


John Joseph "Jack" Nicholson is 79 today.

                       


Nicholson portraying the Joker in 1989’s Batman.

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PORTRAIT CHANGE ANNOUNCED TODAY


Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross)  (1822 – March 10, 1913)

Treasury Secretary Jack Lew (below) announced plans today for Harriet Tubman
to replace U.S. President Andrew Jackson as the portrait on the front side of the
twenty-dollar bill. The exact design will be announced in 2020.


Tubman, was a Christian African-American, born into slavery who became a humanitarian, abolitionist and one of the leaders’ of the Underground Railroad
during the American Civil War as a Union spy. she became an icon of American 
courage and freedom.


Jacob Joseph "Jack" Lew.


A current $20 bill with the seventh U.S. President (1829–37), Andrew
Jackson
who has been featured on the bill since 1928.

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