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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48683)	7/3/2005 5:16:27 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

Captured Africans revolt aboard the slave ship Amistad 1839: On this day, Joseph Cinqué led 53 recently abducted Africans in the Amistad mutiny, a slave rebellion aboard a Spanish schooner sailing from Havana to Puerto Príncipe, Cuba. The slaves spared the life of a Spanish navigator so that he could sail them home to Sierra Leone, but instead he headed the ship northward, and it was later seized by the U.S. Navy. The mutineers' trial resulted in a surprising victory for the American abolitionist movement in 1841 when the U.S. Supreme Court freed the rebels. 1979: The United States first issued the Susan B. Anthony dollar coin. 1932: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt coined the term “New Deal” in his acceptance speech for the Democratic presidential nomination. 1881: Shot on this day, U.S. President James A. Garfield died several weeks later on September 19. 1865: In London's East End, William Booth founded the ministry soon to be called the Salvation Army. 1776: After a dramatic all-night ride, Delaware delegate Caesar Rodney arrived just in time to cast the decisive vote approving the Declaration of Independence. 1644: At the Battle of Marston Moor, Parliamentary forces handed the Royalists their first major defeat in the English Civil War.

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48683)	7/3/2005 9:55:01 AM
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July 3 Battle of Gettysburg ended 1863: Following three days of unparalleled battlefield violence, hostilities ended in the countryside surrounding Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on this day. Considered a turning point of the American Civil War, the victory at the Battle of Gettysburg, by the Union forces under George G. Meade over the Confederates commanded by Robert E. Lee, came when a Southern spearhead temporarily penetrated Federal lines but was thrown back, forcing Lee to retreat. 1856: The House of Representatives voted to admit Kansas to statehood under the antislavery resolution known as the Topeka Constitution, despite the opposition of the Senate and President Franklin Pierce. 1608: Samuel de Champlain founded the city of Quebec, the first permanent European base in Canada.