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The Gettysburg Address is a famous speech which U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil War.The speech was made at the formal dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery (Gettysburg National Cemetery) in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on the afternoon of November 19, 1863, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated Confederate forces in the Battle of ...
On the anniversary of the signing of the Constitution, NASA held the rollout ceremony of the first Space Shuttle (which NASA had planned to name Constitution but was, instead, named "Enterprise" in honor of its fictional namesake on the television series Star Trek [28]). Douglas DC-8 of Overseas National Airways in US Bicentennial special livery.
On January 17, 2009, Obama hosted a whistle stop train tour in honor of the 200th anniversary of the birth year of Abraham Lincoln. Obama reenacted the final part of Lincoln's 1861 train tour from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Washington, D.C. [ 47 ] [ 48 ] to capture the mood of the 1861 Springfield to Washington train tour traveled by ...
Harvard University celebrated the 300th anniversary of its founding in 1936 with elaborate festivities, hosting tens of thousands of alumni, dignitaries (including United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a Harvard graduate), and representatives of institutions of learning and scholarship from around the world.
SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korean leader Kim Jong Un marked the country's founding anniversary with a parade of paramilitary groups and diplomatic exchanges in which he vowed to deepen ties with China ...
An engraved invitation to the opening ceremonies of the 1926 Sesqui-Centennial Exposition held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 31, 1926. The Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition of 1926 was a world's fair in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Marks founding of first Girl Scout troop in the United States 18 April: Scouts' Day: Armenia: Social and Scouting work take place in one of the central parks of Yerevan [12] 19 April: Guides' Day: Georgia: anniversary of the first national Girl Guide conference in 1997 19 April: Scouts' Day: Azerbaijan [12] /regional_and_national_events_of ...
The last image we have of Patrick Cagey is of his first moments as a free man. He has just walked out of a 30-day drug treatment center in Georgetown, Kentucky, dressed in gym clothes and carrying a Nike duffel bag.