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OddlyTrue News Stand — April 4
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Weird history on April 4
1841 First everWilliam Henry Harrison became the first U.S. president to die in office, sparking a brief constitutional crisis regarding questions of presidential succession that were unanswered by the U.S. Constitution.
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1887 First everArgonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.
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1866 Oddly trueAlexander II of Russia narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Dmitry Karakozov in the city of Saint Petersburg.
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Vintage clipping
Vintage clipping · 1913
The Mobridge news (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.), April 4, 1913
Page 2 · mentions "dog rides horse" · printed on this very day
“MOBKIDUE NEWS the mobridce PRINTING CO MOBRIDGE SOUTH DAKOTA This is tin open season for Turkish T iKb and hot tamales What Is wanted is a cold storage egg that bears the date of its sepul ture Some of those new songs wo…”
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