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- ... that Bray Hammond condemned the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Briscoe v. Bank of Kentucky, decided 185 years ago today, as "about as weak and timid as any the Court ever pronounced"?
- ... that Juan Juárez may have been the first bishop-elect within the territory of the United States?
- ... that Jerold F. Lucey introduced phototherapy to the United States as a treatment for jaundice in newborns?
- ... that Erick Russell is the first openly gay African American elected to a statewide office in the United States?
- ... that in 1991, James F. Kelley claimed that he had been ordered to repatriate Amelia Earhart (who disappeared in 1937) to the United States, where she lived as Irene Craigmile Bolam?
- ... that after the Supreme Court of Ohio imposed restrictions on bail procedures, the dissenting justices participated in a bus tour to campaign for a ballot measure that took away their power on that issue?
- ... that Avi Kwa Ame National Monument, protected as a national monument since March 21, 2023, is a significant habitat of Joshua trees and threatened desert tortoises?
- ... that supply-side progressivism is a response to rising costs of housing, healthcare, and other essential goods in the United States?
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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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Anniversaries for September 14
- 1763 – Seneca warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Devil's Hole during Pontiac's War.
- 1814 – Battle of Baltimore: The poem Defence of Fort McHenry is written by Francis Scott Key. The poem is later used as the lyrics of The Star-Spangled Banner.
- 1901 – Theodore Roosevelt became President of the United States at age 42, the youngest person ever to do so, (1904 pictured) eight days after William McKinley was fatally wounded in Buffalo, New York.
- 1975 – The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonized by Pope Paul VI.
- 1994 – The Major League Baseball season is canceled because of a strike.
- 1998 – Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom.
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- ...that members of the United States Marine Corps (pictured) that were stationed in Central America in the early 20th century have been credited with bringing the sport of baseball to Nicaragua, and popularizing it in the area?
- ...that the interchange between Interstate 476 and U.S. Route 30 in Radnor Township, Pennsylvania contains a large crushed-stone image of a griffin to commemorate Radnor's history as part of the Welsh Tract?
- ...that Negro league baseball executive Cum Posey organized the East-West League in 1932, but the league folded before the end of the season?
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