Yesterday C-Note's Almanac Tomorrow

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1703
French prisoner Man in the Iron Mask dies after 34 years of captivity.

1831
Twentieth President of the US, James Garfield born in Orange Township, Ohio.

1861
Julia Ward Howe writes The Battle Hymn of the Republic.

1863

During the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery, president Abraham Lincoln gives his famous Gettysburg Address four months after the battle.

1915
Labor organizer, folk-poet Joe Hill killed by firing squad in Utah.

1920
Actress Gene Tierney (The Ghost & Mrs Muir), born in Brooklyn.

1942
Polish author and painter Bruno Schultz (The Street of Crocodiles) shot in the back of the head by a German SS officer on a street of the Drohobycz ghetto.

1955
The National Review publishes its first issue.

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