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On April 10th, 1866, three years after stopping a carriage driver in Russia from beating his horse, Henry Bergh of the United States founded the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the ASPCA became one of the largest organizations dedicated to halting cruelty to animals.

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160 years ago today, General Robert E. Lee, commander of the Army of Northern Virginia of the Confederate States of America, signed a treaty of surrender at Appomattox Court House, effectively ending the American Civil War.

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On April 7th, 1922, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall secretly leased federal oil reserves to the Mammoth Oil Company in return for cash gifts in the Teapot Dome Scandal. Fall became the first presidential cabinet member to go to prison, but no one was convicted of paying the bribes.

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On April 4th, 1949, The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed, the founding member nations of this military alliance being Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

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On April 3rd, 1968, At an event for the Memphis sanitation workers strike, American civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his Mountaintop Speech; the following day he was assassinated

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In 2020, trump re-named NAFTA to the USMCA, stated “The USMCA is the fairest, most balanced, and beneficial trade agreement we have ever signed into law. It’s the best agreement we’ve ever made” The USMCA is still in effect, so why is he implementing tariffs on Mexico and Canada? This is insanity

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