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- ... that Mel Carnahan was the first person to be elected to the United States Senate posthumously?
- ... that eight years after the U.S. Army canceled the M8 Armored Gun System, the 82nd Airborne Division requested that prototypes from the program be sent to Iraq?
- ... that WNJU, a Spanish-language television station serving New York City, was the first in the United States to air a hard-liquor advertisement?
- ... that Esther Cuesta was an undocumented migrant in the United States long before she was elected to represent about 800,000 Ecuadorian migrants?
- ... that as a youth, Jim Johannson handed out shoes and jackets to ice hockey players on the United States national team, then later became general manager of the team?
- ... that Bazzini, established in 1886, is the oldest extant nut company in the United States?
- ... that British Army brigadier Cyril Barclay certified that he was neither a polygamist nor an anarchist who wished to overthrow the United States government?
- ... that prolific Italian forger Tobia Nicotra once toured the United States impersonating conductor Riccardo Drigo, who had died two years earlier?
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Lunney was a pivotal figure in America's manned space program from Project Mercury through the coming of the Space Shuttle. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the National Space Trophy, which he was given by the Rotary Club in 2005. Chris Kraft, NASA's first flight director, described Lunney as "a true hero of the space age", saying that he was "one of the outstanding contributors to the exploration of space of the last four decades".
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Poe and his works influenced literature in the United States and around the world, as well as in specialized fields, such as cosmology and cryptography. Poe and his work appear throughout popular culture in literature, music, films, and television. A number of his homes are dedicated museums today.
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The centers of all three branches of the U.S. federal government are located in the District, as are many of the nation's monuments and museums. Washington, D.C., is governed by a mayor and a 13-member city council. However, the United States Congress has supreme authority over the city and may overturn local laws. Residents of the District therefore have less self-governance than residents of the states.
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Anniversaries for July 3
- 1775 – George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- 1852 – Congress establishes the United States's second mint in San Francisco, California.
- 1878 – George M. Cohan (pictured), considered the father of American musical comedy and known in the decade before World War I as "the man who owned Broadway", was born.
- 1884 – Dow Jones and Company publishes its first stock average.
- 1890 – Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.
- 1952 – Puerto Rico's Constitution is approved by the United States Congress.
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- ... that Indianapolis's Scottish Rite Cathedral (pictured) is the largest building dedicated to Freemasonry in the United States, and features many measurements in multiples of 33?
- ... that on 14 August 1936 Rainey Bethea was hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky, thus becoming the last person to be publicly executed in the United States?
- ... that Charles Brooks, Jr., was the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States?
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