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OddlyTrue News Stand — April 19
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Weird history on April 19
1506 Oddly trueThe Lisbon Massacre begins, in which about two thousand Jews who had been forcibly converted to Christianity are slaughtered by Portuguese Catholics.
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1861 First everThe first bloodshed of the American Civil War took place when Confederate sympathizers in Baltimore, Maryland, attacked members of the Massachusetts militia en route to Washington, D.C.
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1782 First everThe States General of the Dutch Republic received John Adams, and the house he had purchased in The Hague became the first United States embassy.
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Vintage clipping
Vintage clipping · 1918
The Leader enterprise and press (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Georgia), April 19, 1918, (Friday Edition)
Page 3 · mentions "meteorite" · printed on this very day
“KEEP YOUR SHOES NEAT PRESERVE THE LEATHER LIQUIDS AND PASTES FOR BLACK WHITE TAN DARK BROWN OR OXBLOOD SHOES Protect Yourself and Ford vevssntenss o IDRUEIIRE A coooov o Hold Em In The Road The only device that prevents …”
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