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  2. 1864 State of the Union Address - Wikipedia

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    The 1864 State of the Union Address was given by Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States. It was presented to the United States Congress on Tuesday, December 6, 1864. It was given right before the end of the American Civil War .

  3. List of observances in the United States by presidential ...

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    1st Sunday after Labor Day: National Grandparents' Day; weekend before September 11: National Days of Prayer and Remembrance; September 11: Patriot Day; September 11: Emergency Number Day [15] 3rd Friday in September National POW/MIA Recognition Day POW☆ MIA Flag. September 17: Constitution Day and Citizenship Day and Constitution Week

  4. First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President ...

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    First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln is an 1864 oil-on-canvas painting by Francis Bicknell Carpenter.In the painting, Carpenter depicts Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, and his Cabinet members reading over the Emancipation Proclamation, which proclaimed the freedom of slaves in the ten states in rebellion against the Union in the American ...

  5. Thanksgiving - Wikipedia

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    The landing was immediately followed by a religious celebration, specifically dictated by the group's charter from the London Company. The charter declared, "that the day of our ships arrival at the place assigned for plantation in the land of Virginia shall be yearly and perpetually kept holy as a day of thanksgiving to Almighty God."

  6. 1864 in the United States - Wikipedia

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    May 18 – Civil War gold hoax: The New York World and the New York Journal of Commerce publish a fake proclamation that President Abraham Lincoln has issued a draft of 400,000 more soldiers. May 20 – American Civil War – Battle of Ware Bottom Church : In the Virginia Bermuda Hundred Campaign , 10,000 troops fight in this Confederate victory.

  7. National Thanksgiving Proclamation - Wikipedia

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    The first proclamation on the way to becoming the United States was issued by John Hancock as President of the Continental Congress as a day of fasting on March 16, 1776. [12] The first national Thanksgiving was celebrated on December 18, 1777, and the Continental Congress issued National Thanksgiving Day proclamations each year between 1778 ...

  8. Indeed, this year's flyer does say that the decorated Easter egg submissions "must not include any questionable content, religious symbols, overtly religious themes, or partisan political statements."

  9. List of papal bulls - Wikipedia

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    Places religious and economic restrictions on Jews in the Papal States. [150] 1559 (February 15) Cum ex apostolatus officio ("By virtue of the apostolic office") Confirms that only Catholics can be elected Popes. 1560 (January 19) Ad caritatis et misericordiae opera: Pius IV: Roman hospital of San Giacomo degli Incurabili. 1564 Dominici Gregis ...