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"I would not be cured if the price of the cure was that I must leave the island and give up my work I am perfectly resigned to my lot. Do not feel sorry for me." Saint Damien of Molokai SSCC 3 January 1840 – 15 April 1889

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"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." Abraham Lincoln February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865 16th president of the United States

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Thomas Hart Benton April 15, 1889 – January 19, 1975 American painter, muralist, and printmaker.

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April 15, 2019 – The cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris in France is seriously damaged by a large fire.

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April 15. 1960 – At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.

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April 15, 1952 – First flight of the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress.

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April 15, 1947 – Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.

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April 15, 1945 – Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated.

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The Nihon Shōgakkō fire, or Japanese mission school fire, was a racially motivated arson that killed ten children in Sacramento, California, on April 15, 1923, at the dormitory of a Buddhist boarding school for students of Japanese ancestry.

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April 15, 1923 – Insulin becomes generally available for use by people with diabetes.

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April 15, 1865 – President Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth. Three hours later, Vice President Andrew Johnson is sworn in as president.

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April 15, 1642 – Irish Confederate Wars: A Confederate Irish militia is routed in the Battle of Kilrush when it attempts to halt the progress of a Royalist Army.

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If they’re going to send us to the Gulags and Concentration Camps anyway Let’s take a few down with us

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#OTD in 1947, Jackie Robinson debuted for the Brooklyn Dodgers breaking major league baseball's color barrier. I've always loved this picture from after the game - #BaseballSky.

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I don’t think a better headline could have been written about what happened yesterday. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Happy Tuesday youtu.be/BP-xffG3ksI?...

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It’s a COUP We have lost Due Process Once legal immigrants are being declared “Dead” ICE with faces covered are stalking Schools and Churches WAKE UP Keep Reposting

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ANYTIME TERRORIST TRUMP OPENS HIS DIARRHEA FACE HOLE TO SPEAK EVERYONE MUST YELL THE NAME OF Abrego Garcia THE INNOCENT AMERICAN CHRISTIAN THE GOP HAD EXECUTED IN HELL SALVADOR. REPUBLICANS ARE PURE MURDEROUS EVIL LIKE THE SS OR THE KHMER ROUGE. THE GOP ARE MURDERING INNOCENT AMERICANS 🇺🇸 🩸

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IMPEACH & DEPORT TERRORIST TRUMP FOR CONTEMPT OF COURT!!!!!!! SEND IN THE DEPUTIES!!!!!! LETS GOOOOOOO!!!!!! LOCK THESE NAZI SCUMBAGS UP!!!!!!!!!! 🧑‍⚖️ 🍊 💩 🖕

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"I am all in favour of spontaneity, providing it is carefully planned and ruthlessly controlled." Sir Arthur John Gielgud 14 April 1904 – 21 May 2000 English actor and theatre director whose career spanned eight decades

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April 14, 1945 – Razing of Friesoythe: The 4th Canadian (Armoured) Division deliberately destroys the German town of Friesoythe on the orders of Major General Christopher Vokes.

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April 14, 1935 – The Black Sunday dust storm, considered one of the worst storms of the Dust Bowl, sweeps across the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles and neighboring areas.

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April 14, 1909 – Muslims in the Ottoman Empire begin a massacre of Armenians in Adana. An Armenian woman from Adana, tortured and maimed by knife wounds

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April 14, 1865 President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth; Lincoln dies the following day.

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April 14, 1775 – The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage, the first abolition society in North America, is organized in Philadelphia by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush.

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OTD 43 BC – Legions loyal to the Roman Senate, commanded by Gaius Pansa, defeat the forces of Mark Antony in the Battle of Forum Gallorum.

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Happy Monday youtu.be/bOgAo2GuYXI?...

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If I had to reregister to vote, post SAVE Act, I'd need: a $25 copy of my birth certificate, a $5 copy of my name change, a $3 copy of my marriage license, and an $89 drivers license. OR a $165 passport. Not only is it a poll tax, it's also a pink tax.

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Oof. We’ve fallen so far, so fast.

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"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government." Thomas Jefferson April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826 American Founding Father and the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809.

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April 13, 1948 – In an ambush, 78 Jewish doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital, and a British soldier, are massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarrah. This event came to be known as the Hadassah medical convoy massacre.

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April 13,1945 – World War II: German troops kill more than 1,000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen, Germany.

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