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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49599)1/13/2006 7:17:48 AM
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This Day in History

Émile Zola's “J'accuse” published


1898: On this day in 1898, French author Émile Zola published an open letter in the newspaper L'Aurore denouncing the French general staff for its role in the 1894 treason conviction of Jewish French army officer Alfred Dreyfus.




1942: American industrialist Henry Ford patented plastic automobile construction.

1808: Salmon P. Chase, secretary of the Treasury (1861–64) in Abraham Lincoln's wartime cabinet and sixth chief justice of the United States (1864–73), was born.